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Centre for Finance and Development
Formation2012 (2012)
FoundersJean-Louis Arcand, Ugo Panizza
HeadquartersGeneva
Location
FieldsDevelopment economics, International finance, Microeconomics

Director

Nathan Sussman

Key people

Ugo Panizza, Cédric Tille, Charles Wyplosz, Lore Vandewalle, Huang Yi

Parent organization

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Websitegraduateinstitute.ch/cfd

The Centre for Finance and Development (CFD) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies which is housed at the Maison de la paixinGeneva. The Centre is staffed by several prominent economists such as: director Nathan Sussman, deputy-director Ugo Panizza, Lore Vandewalle, Cédric Tille, and Charles Wyplosz.[1]

Founding[edit]

The Centre for Finance and Development was founded in 2012 with a grant of the Pictet Foundation for Development.[2][3][4] It was formally inaugurated by Harvard professor Ricardo Hausmann in September 2012. The Centre's first director was Jean-Louis Arcand.[5] From 2016, Ugo Panizza was director of the CFD, after which Nathan Sussman took over his role in 2019.[6]

Expertise[edit]

The Centre specifically focuses on research in the following fields:

Activities[edit]

The Centre's faculty regularly publishes their research in academic journals, books and the Centre's own research paper series.[8] The research output includes the influential Too Much Finance paper, the research for which was done at the Centre for Finance and Development.

Furthermore, the Centre regularly hosts conferences and public lectures. In 2017, the CFD hosted the second edition of the DebtCon conference on sovereign debt. In 2018, the Centre hosted a two-day conference on blended development finance together with the Center for Global Development and the CDC Group. In 2019, it hosted the annual lecture of the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research with Santiago Levy and hosted the first annual conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network, a network involving the International Finance Corporation, CDC Group, Internationanl Growth Centre and other institutions in the field.[9] Since 2020, the Centre also hosts an online seminar series on economic history, the International Macro History Online Seminar.[10]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Centre for Finance and Development: Faculty and Staff". graduateinstitute.ch. Archived from the original on 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  • ^ "Inauguration: Centre for Finance and Development". graduateinstitute.ch. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  • ^ "Pictet Foundation" (PDF). The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  • ^ "Globe". The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  • ^ "Interview with Ricardo Hausmann". YouTube. 23 November 2012. Archived from the original on 2020-11-03.
  • ^ "Professor Nathan Sussman Takes Over as Director of the Centre for Finance and Development". graduateinstitute.ch. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  • ^ "Centre for Finance and Development: Areas of Focus". graduateinstitute.ch. Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  • ^ "Centre for Finance and Development". graduateinstitute.ch. Archived from the original on 2012-12-01. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  • ^ "Centre for Finance and Development: Conference Papers and Recordings". graduateinstitute.ch. Archived from the original on 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  • ^ "Centre for Finance and Development: Seminar Series". graduateinstitute.ch. Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2020-09-17.

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