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5th International Conference on Development Economics - Call for Papers

University Paris Nanterre and EconomiX (UMR 7235) are pleased to host the 5th International Conference on Development Economics (ICDE) of the French Association of Development Economics (AFEDEV), which will take place from July 2 to 4, 2025.

Workshop on Networks and Development in Naples

Workshop on Networks and Development - Call for papers

We are pleased to announce the fourth edition fo the Workshop in Networks and Development, held in Naples the 22 and 23 of May, 2025. Submit by January 30, 2025.

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Eliana La Ferrara

Scientific Director

Eliana La Ferrara is the Fondazione Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Economics...

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Pamela Giustinelli

Pamela Giustinelli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics of Bocconi University. She is interested in modeling, empirical, and count...

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Javier Garcia Brazales Sierra

Javier is a post-doctoral researcher at LEAP, which he joined in September 2022 after receiving his PhD in Economics from CEMFI (Spain). His work focu...

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Lucia Corno

Executive Director

Lucia Corno is Assistant Professor at Catholic University, Milan. She received her PhD in Economics from Bocconi. Her research is in development econo...

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Sarah Eichmeyer

Sarah Eichmeyer is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. Her research spans the areas of public/health economics and po...

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Miguel Espinosa

Miguel Espinosa is an Assistant Professor of the Management Department at Bocconi University and received his PhD in Economics from the LSE. Before co...

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Joseph-Simon Goerlach

Joseph-Simon Goerlach joined the Department of Economics at Bocconi as an Assistant Professor after receiving a PhD from University College London in ...

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Francesca Miserocchi

Francesca Miserocchi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2025, she will join the Department of Economics at Tilburg University ...

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Andrea Guariso

Andrea Guariso is Assistant Professor of Economics at Bicocca University. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Leuven in 2016 and w...

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Livia Alfonsi

Livia is a development economist whose research focuses on labor market frictions and determinants of labor market participation in low-income setting...

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Stefano Fiorin

Stefano Fiorin is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi University. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA Anderson and he was a Post...

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Marinella Leone

Marinella Leone is Associate Professor at the University of Pavia. She received her PhD in economics from the University of Sussex in 2013 and wo...

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Michela Carlana

Michela Carlana is Assistant Professor at Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge (USA). She received her PhD in Economics from Bocconi University in 2018 a...

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Iris Steenkamp

Iris Steenkamp is an Assistant Professor in the Marketing Department at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Marketing from London Business Sch...

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Fernando Vega-Redondo

Fernando Vega-Redondo is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. He has also taught at the Universities of Alicante (Spain), Pompeu Fabra (Spain...

Erika Deserranno

Erika Deserranno

Erika Deserranno is Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi University. Her research focuses on the intersection of development, pe...

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Awa Ambra Seck

Awa Ambra Seck is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. She graduated from Harvard in May 2023...

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Mara Squicciarini

Mara Squicciarini is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University ...

Michela M. Tincani

Michela Tincani is Associate Professor at University College London. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Her resear...

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Alessandra Voena

Alessandra Voena's is a Professor at the Department of Economics, Stanford University and she received her PhD in economics from Stanford University i...

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