Past Conferences
Past Conferences
Information on past DevPEC conferences can be found below.
2026 (Stanford)
Keynote Speaker: TBA
Presenters: TBA
Organizing Committee: Sarah Danner (UC Berkeley), Igor Kolesnikov (UC Berkeley), Ziyi Liu (UC Berkeley), Nick Shankar (UC Berkeley), Camila Blanes Garcia Cors (Stanford)
Link to Program (TBA)
2025 (UC Berkeley)
Keynote Speaker: Professor Jonathan Weigel (UC Berkeley)
Presenters: Riccardo Di Cato (UCSD), Steven Brownstone (UCSD), Amen Jalal (LSE), Daniel Sonnenstuhl (UChicago), Julia Hélie (PSE), Natalia Pia Guerrero Trinidad (Minnesota), Samuel Chang (UChicago), Camila Blanes Garcia Cors (Stanford)
Organizing Committee: Edgar H. Sánchez‑Cuevas (UC Berkeley), Sarah Danner (UC Berkeley), Nick Shankar (UC Berkeley), Monia Tomasella (Stanford), Camilla Cherubini (Stanford), Anna Vdovina (Stanford)
2024 (Stanford)
Keynote Speaker: Professor Saumitra Jha (Stanford)
Presenters: Andre Gray (UCSD), Devis Decet (Northwestern), Dibya Mishra (Rice), Franco Calle (UChicago), Netanel Ben Porath (Northwestern), Rosanne Logeart (PSE), Joao F. Pugliese (Stanford), Guohui Jiang (UZH), Yasuka Tateishi (UCL)
Organizing Committee: Eva Davoine (UC Berkeley), Silvia Farina (UC Berkeley), Kyra Frye (Stanford), Pablo Guzman Lizardo (Stanford)
2023 (UC Berkeley)
Keynote Speaker: Professor Marco Gonzalez-Navarro (UC Berkeley)
Presenters: Qianmiao Chen (UC Berkeley), Jed Silver (UC Berkeley), Clara Sievert (Harvard), Marshall Mo (Harvard), Sebastian Hager (LMU), Jens Oehlen (Stockholm), Azizbek Tokhirov (CERGE-EI), Layane Alhorr (Harvard)
Organizing Committee: Silvia Barbareschi (UC Berkeley), Sheah Deilami (UC Berkeley), Gabriel Granato (UC Berkeley), Ming-yen Ho (UC Berkeley), Eva Lestant (Stanford), Florencia Hnilo (Stanford)
2022 (Stanford)
Keynote Speaker: Professor Melanie Morten (Stanford)
Presenters: Lukas Althoff (Princeton), Nicolas Longuet Marx (Columbia), Duncan Webb (PSE), Sally Zhang (Stanford), James Sayre (UC Berkeley), Justin Jihao Hong (BU), Suzanna Khalifa (Aix-Marseille)
Organizing Committee: Pavel Bacherikov (UC Berkeley), Chi Man Cheung (UC Berkeley), João F. Pugliese (Stanford), Renan Yoshida (Stanford)
2021 (UC Berkeley — Virtual)
Keynote Speaker: Professor Katherine Casey (Stanford)
Presenters: Suzanna Khalifa (Aix-Marseille), Apurav Yash Bhatiya (Warwick), Thomas Pearson (BU), Kim Fe Cramer (Columbia), Awa Ambra Seck (Harvard), Tatiana Orozco Garcia (Göttingen), Arkadev Ghosh (UBC)
Organizing Committee: Daria Bakhareva (UC Berkeley), J. Landin Smith (UC Berkeley), Marshall Mo (Stanford), Andres Felipe Rodriguez (Stanford)
2020 (Stanford — Virtual)
Keynote Speaker: Professor Ricardo Perez-Truglia (UC Berkeley)
Presenters: Ricardo Dahis (Northwestern), Augustin Bergeron (Harvard), Christina Brown (UC Berkeley), Even Comfort Hvinden (BI Norwegian Business), Elisa Macchi (UZH), Allan Hsiao (MIT), Sebastian Ellingsen (UPF)
Organizing Committee: Lukas Leucht (UC Berkeley), David Qihang Wu (UC Berkeley), Mark Walsh (Stanford), Sally Zhang (Stanford)
2019 (Stanford)
Keynote Speaker: Professor Marcella Alsan (Stanford)
Presenters: Alexander Poulsen (Boston College), Samuele Giambra (Brown), Michael Koelle (Oxford), Tanu Kumar (UC Berkeley), Abhilasha Sahay (GWU), Jonah Rexer (UPenn), Giacomo Battiston (Bocconi)
Organizing Committee: Murilo Ramos (UC Berkeley), Thiago Scot (UC Berkeley), Nina Buchmann (Stanford), Beatriz Pousada (Stanford), Ana Trindade Ribeiro (Stanford)
2018 (UC Berkeley)
Keynote Speaker: Professor Noam Yuchtman (UC Berkeley)
Presenters: Itzchak Tzachi Raz (Harvard), Alexey Makarin (Northwestern), Shan Aman-Rana (LSE), Divya Singh (Columbia), Wayne Aaron Sandholtz (UCSD), Heyu Xiong (Northwestern)
Organizing Committee: Katarina Jensen (UC Berkeley), Caroline Le Pennec (UC Berkeley), Nano Barahona (Stanford), Cauê Dobbin (Stanford), Sebastián Otero (Stanford)
2017 (UC Berkeley)
Keynote Speakers: Professor Rohini Pande (Harvard) and Professor Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra (UC Berkeley)
Presenters: Juliana Londoño-Vélez (UC Berkeley), Gabriel Tourek (Harvard), Edoardo Teso (Harvard), Elisa Maffioli (Duke), Emanuele Colonelli (Stanford), Sam Krumholz (UCSD), Carlos Varjao (Stanford), David Yang (Stanford)
Organizing Committee: Katarina Jensen (UC Berkeley), Caroline Le Pennec (UC Berkeley), Nano Barahona (Stanford), Cauê Dobbin (Stanford), Sebastián Otero (Stanford)
2016 (UC Berkeley)
Keynote Speakers: Professor Ernesto Dal Bó (UC Berkeley) and Professor Frederico Finan (UC Berkeley)
Presenters: Ricardo Dahis (Northwestern), Rossa O’Keeffe-O’Donovan (UPenn), Weijia Li (UC Berkeley), Federico Huneeus (Princeton), Jeff Weaver (Yale), Susan Ou (Northwestern), Vasily Korovkin (UCLA)
2015 (Stanford)
Keynote Speakers: Professor Katherine Casey (Stanford) and Professor Ernesto Dal Bó (UC Berkeley)
Presenters: Stephen O’Connell (CUNY), Felipe Gonzalez (Berkeley), Mounu Prem (Stanford), Fernanda Marquez-Padilla (Princeton), Eric Arias (NYU), Matt Lowe (MIT), Cory Smith (MIT), Sara Lowes (Harvard), Eduardo Montero (Harvard), Ricardo Pique Cebrecos (Northwestern), Edoardo Teso (Harvard), Pierre Bachas (Berkeley), Mauricio Soto (Banco Central de Costa Rica), Mari Tanaka (Stanford), Nick Tsivanidis (UChicago)
Organizing Committee: David Schönholzer (UC Berkeley), Emanuele Colonnelli (Stanford), Francisco Muñoz (Stanford)