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Sean Higgins

@seankhiggins.bsky.social
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Prof @NorthwesternU @KelloggSchool Finance. I study how technology reduces frictions in payments markets and consumer financial markets

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Giorgia Barboni @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Our next #WEFIDEV seminar is tomorrow, May 18 at 11am EST/5pm CEST and will feature work on disposition effect in 🇨🇳 by Qinling Ouyang from Stockholm University. The full schedule is available at wefidev.com @seankhiggins.bsky.social.
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Excited for this week’s #WEFIDEV #Webinar in #Finance and #Development! Yao Zeng will present work on the impact of interoperability on #digitalpayments in 🇮🇳 Monday Apr 6 at 11a ET / 5p Central Europe Organized with @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer Nish Vats Nicola Limodio
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is our 5th annual conference, coorganized with @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Nicola Limodio and Kim Fe Cramer Reach out if interested in attending!
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We are thrilled to share the program of the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-CEPR Conference on #Finance and #Development! seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/2... April 18-19 at @kelloggschoolnu.bsky.social Featuring a dual submission with the RFS Thanks to Kellogg Asset Management Practicum, RFS, @cepr.org
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Join us today for our #WEFIDEV #webinar on #finance and #development. With @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Nicola Limodio Nishant Vats and Kim Fe Cramer Today we are hosting Rebecca De Simone and Nirupama Kulkarni - learn with us about delegated screening and disparities in home loans. See you soon!
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
In today's #WEFIDEV #Webinar in #Finance and #Development we have two exciting papers on remittances by #NicolaLimodio and #IngomarKrohn Join us in a couple of hours, today at 11a US Eastern Time, 5p Central European time!
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Giorgia Barboni @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Our next #WEFIDEV webinar in #Finance & #Development is tomorrow Nov 10 @ 11amET/5pmCET. Excited to have Amineh Mahmoudzadeh talking about Justice in Lending in 🇮🇷 and Paul Brimble on Contagion in Financial Cooperatives in 🇰🇪 Details on the webinar schedule & the 2026 #WEFIDEV workshop at wefidev.com.
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
One week left to submit to the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development! Dual submission option with RFS Apr 18-19 at @kelloggschoolnu.bsky.social organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social #KimFeCramer #NicolaLimodio Submit by Nov 16: form.jotform.com/WEFIDEV/subm...
View from Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University campus, Lake Michigan, and the downtown Chicago skyline
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Excited to announce the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development Dual submission with RFS Apr 18-19 at Kellogg organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social #KimFeCramer #NicolaLimodio Submit by Nov 16 form.jotform.com/WEFIDEV/subm... Details seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/W...
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
We are hiring pre-doctoral research fellows in the finance department at Kellogg @kelloggschoolnu.bsky.social at Northwestern University Apply here: kellogg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Priority deadline Oct 31 cc @nber.org @econthaki.bsky.social #econ_ra #predoc
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
📢JOB OPPORTUNITY📢 I am hiring a part-time or full-time research assistant in Mexico City 🇲🇽 For a project with #PierreBachas #AndersJensen to understand the impacts of a tax on firms' cash deposits at banks seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/I... #EconRA @povertyaction.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Excited to announce the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development Dual submission with RFS Apr 18-19 at Kellogg organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social #KimFeCramer #NicolaLimodio Submit by Nov 16 form.jotform.com/WEFIDEV/subm... Details seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/W...
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The #WEFIDEV #webinar series is back this fall! We are looking for *preliminary or early-stage work* in #Finance and #Development to be presented We also aim to have a session devoted to job candidates in finance and development on the market this fall Submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Webinar in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV)
This form collects interest for presentations in the fall season of the Webinar series in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV) for junior scholars working on finance topics in developing countries. We ar...
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Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com · 24/07/2025
We just opened another round of applications for Malengo's Uganda–Germany university program! Please share widely. (Note the early deadline, Aug 16!)
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Really interesting conference happening in #Chile in January on Promoting Financial Inclusion and Innovation in Latin America! Jointly hosted by @berkeleyhaas.bsky.social, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, and @cega-uc.bsky.social 8 days left to apply Submit: lnkd.in/g_eS2cuy
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
It was a delight giving a keynote on "Payment Systems and Financial Inclusion" at the Federal Reserve System Payments Researchers Annual Meeting My slides: seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/h... Based on www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... + a discussion of fast payments in emerging markets at the end
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Very exciting that Review of Finance recognizes the importance of research on the future of payments and will have a special issue on this topic! revfin.org/special-issu...
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Special Issue: Call for Proposals on the Future of Payments—CBDC, Digital Assets and Digital Capital Markets - Review of Finance
Organisers: CEPR, European Central Bank, Review of Finance and Bocconi University (local host). Guest Editors Elena Carletti, Dirk Niepelt, Marcus M. Opp (Sponsoring RoF Editor), Claudio Tebaldi. D...
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Giorgia Barboni @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Join us for our final #WEFIDEV Spring webinar in #Finance and #Development that takes place today at 11am ET/5pm CET. Cameron LaPoint and Smit Gade will present their work! And check www.wefidev.com for important upcoming news! With @seankhiggins.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer and Nicola Limodio
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is because interest rates on the credit card debt are typically much higher than interest rates on savings Then, if hit with a shock such as job loss during a recession, can always tap into the credit card line again (after having paid some of it off) www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
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Are we going into a recession? Why it's not too late to prepare.
Recession fears are rising under President Trump's new campaign of tariffs. There is still time to prepare your finances.
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
It was fantastic talking to @usatoday.com about how households can prepare for a recession If you're considering building up a savings buffer for a recession, but also have substantial credit card debt, it makes more financial sense to pay down debt than to save www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Join us on Monday 11am ET / 5pm Europe for our #WEFIDEV #webinar on #Finance & #Development. We have exciting presentations by Will Cong and Robert Hsu Rocha on #Fintech and credit allocation! Interested? sign up at www.wefidev.com Kim Fe Cramer @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Nicola Limodio
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
And to wrap up a day of very interesting papers, Luisa Cefalà on knowledge hoarding and its implications for technology diffusion in #Burundi 🇧🇮
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Next: Jeanne Sorin Le Guevel (from UChicago headed to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @goldmanschool.bsky.social) on building public infrastructure (roads) on private land in #Uganda 🇺🇬
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Next: Oluchi Mbonu (from @harvard.edu headed to World Bank) on market segmentation in the minibus sector in #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Next: Javier Feinmann (from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social headed to @pse.bsky.social) on wage payments under the table to formal-sector employees in #Brazil 🇧🇷
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Next: Tishara Garg (from MIT headed to @stanford.edu) on industrial policy and coordination failures in #India 🇮🇳
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
First up: Dev Patel (from @harvard.edu heading to @brown.edu) on environmental beliefs, adaptation to #ClimateChange, and farmer profits in #Bangladesh 🇧🇩
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
@loribeaman.bsky.social kicking off our annual Northwestern Development Economics Rookiefest where this year’s job market candidates in development from across universities present their JMPs!
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Day 2: bsky.app/profile/sean...
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thanks everyone for a fantastic #WEFIDEV #Conference on #Finance and #Development at LSE. This was the first of three dual submission conferences with the RFS, so join us in the future! To learn more, check out our website: www.wefidev.com Thread on papers below ⬇️
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
And to close out the conference, @akjain.bsky.social on the use of informal loans to bridge rigid, short-maturity formal loans in #Thailand 🇹🇭
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Next @vaishnavisur.bsky.social on the use of formal bank credit by informal money lenders in #India 🇮🇳
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Next Shang-Jin Wei on #fintech creating competition in interest rates paid on deposits in #China 🇨🇳
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Next Matheus Sampaio on effect of digital payments on the adoption and use of other payment technologies in #Brazil 🇧🇷
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Next Manju Puri on digital payments, open banking, and access to credit in #India 🇮🇳
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Next @muhammadmeki.bsky.social comparing debt and equity-like financing for a productive asset for micro-distributors in #Kenya 🇰🇪
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Day 2 of the #WEFIDEV RFS @cepr.org #Conference on #Finance and #Development starts with Silvia Prina on rehabilitating delinquent digital borrowers in sub-Saharan Africa
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
And to wrap the day, a session featuring projects on financing agricultural SMEs funded by @theigc.bsky.social & Aceli Africa
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Next @renpingli.bsky.social on the welfare effects of pay-as-you-go financing in #Mexico 🇲🇽
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Now Tarun Ramadorai giving a keynote on asset value underreporting and optimal tax policy in Mumbai 🇮🇳
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Next @ralphdehaas.bsky.social on violent conflict and cross-border lending
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Next @amanda-ds.bsky.social on the impact of government bond issuance on corporate bond issuance in #Brazil 🇧🇷 Tackles a key question for finance and development: how do you develop financial markets?
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Next Shohini Kundu on historical corporate investment in #India 🇮🇳, comparing areas under direct colonial rule where existing economic institutions were destroyed to those under indirect rule
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The 2025 #WEFIDEV RFS @cepr.org Conference kicks off with Chhavi Rastogi presenting on investment along the supply chain in #India 🇮🇳
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
📢Job opportunity📢 We're hiring a full-time RA for a project with Chile's financial regulator on the effect of loan price comparison tools Spanish & #Rstats needed Details and apply: seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/2... cc #EconRA @povertyaction.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social @econthaki.bsky.social
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Here's the full academic paper: www.nber.org/papers/w33387
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Do Behavioral Frictions Prevent Firms from Adopting Profitable Opportunities?
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Small businesses don’t always take advantage of simple opportunities to improve their bottom line. Why not? @kellogginsight.bsky.social covers our research on this question in Mexico 🇲🇽 (w Paul Gertler, Ulrike Malmendier, and @waldo-tk.bsky.social) insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/why-...!
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Why Small Firms Take a Pass on Profitable Opportunities
And how they can be encouraged to buy in.
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Our #WEFIDEV #webinar on #Finance and #Development is back! We are meeting on April 14, 28, and May 12, with great speakers. Have a look at our program & sign up for our mailing list: www.wefidev.com/spring-2025-... Organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer & Nicola Limodio
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WEFIDEV - SPRING 2025 WEBINAR SCHEDULE
Seminars take place the second and fourth Monday of every month at 5pm Central European Time / 11 am Eastern Time on Zoom.
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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
We are thrilled to share the program for the WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development, with an RFS dual submission! Thanks everyone for contributing. See you in March at LSE! Organized w @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social, Kim Fe Cramer, Nicola Limodio www.wefidev.com/2025-confere...
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WEFIDEV - 2025 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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NBER @nber.org · 29/01/2025
Firms often fail to adopt profitable opportunities. Working with a FinTech to randomize offers to 33,978 firms in Mexico and show the role of behavioral biases such as memory and trust, from Paul Gertler, Sean Higgins, Ulrike Malmendier, and Waldo Ojeda www.nber.org/papers/w33387
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