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IGC-SCID Firms, Trade, and Development Conference 2016
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Jerome Kasoff ’54 Professor of Management and Economics, Yale University
Jonas Hjort
Professor of Economics, University College London
Dave Donaldson
Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sam Asher
Associate Professor, Imperial College London Business School
Eric Verhoogen
Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Columbia UniversityThe IGC and Stanford’s Center for International Development (SCID) hosted their annual two-day conference at Stanford on 3-4 November 2016.
The conference brought together some of the world’s foremost researchers on firms, trade, and development with the aim of furthering the knowledge frontier and generating interest for the research agenda. This year, the conference included a keynote and panel discussion with key policymakers from IGC partner countries and international organisations. The event was organised by Nick Bloom, Pete Klenow, Andres Rodriguez-Clare, Eric Verhoogen, Chris Woodruff, and Dave Donaldson.
Read our blog post about the conference.