Events

HOSTING ORGANIZATIONS: Please join the Becker Friedman Institute, Princeton University, and Innovations for Poverty Action for the sixth webinar in a series presenting innovative research on crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean. Young people account for a disproportionate high fraction of perpetrators and victims of violence, due in part to their involvement […]

HOSTING ORGANIZERS COLLABORATING ORGANIZERS An artificially low interest rate on household savings is a common form of financial repression in developing economies and typically benefits incumbent banks. Using proprietary data from a leading Chinese FinTech company, the authors study the role of Fintech in ending the financial repression by introducing to households money market funds […]

The Tsinghua University - University of Chicago Joint Research Center for Economics and Finance, in collaboration with the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics in China (BFI-China), the National Institute for Fiscal Studies (NIFS) and School of Economics and Management (SEM) at Tsinghua University, will host a virtual seminar series to inspire research and discussion on […]

The Development Lunch Seminars are operated with support from the Becker Friedman Institute and The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and is a collaboration between University of Chicago Department of Economics, Booth School of Business, Harris School of Public Policy and the Law School. This seminar series is weekly on Fridays from 12:30-2:00 […]

About the Seminar Series China is poised to become the world’s largest economy in the near future. However, such growth is not guaranteed. China faces increasingly complex questions about how to manage the tension between state control and market influence within its own borders, and how to address international disputes that often arise with expanded […]