BBS - Prof. Seyed Komail Tayebi, PhD & Ms. Zahra Zamani, PhD

We invite you to the15th Brown Bag Seminar that will take place on Tusday, June 4th, 2019 at the Faculty of Economics & Business in Zagreb in Hall 54 starting at 2 pm. The Brown Bag Seminar continues with the presentation of Prof. Seyed Komail Tayebi, PhD and Ms. Zahra Zamani, PhD from the University of Isfahan (Iran), who will present the work „WTO Membership as a Treatment Effect: Assessing Growth of the World Economy“

Brief Summary of Presentation:
Providing effective evaluation of economic, social and medical plans has become an increasingly important requirement for specific purposes as well as for both public and private institutions. One method to investigate the effect of these plans is the ‘program evaluation’, which is in conjunction with the estimation of the causal effects of policy interventions to know whether a particular participation is effective in accomplishing its primary objectives.
Thus, we provide empirical results to matching estimators for average treatment effects of WTO membership on economic growth using nearest-neighbor matching estimators for average treatment effects (ATE) for either the overall sample or a sub-sample of treated or control units (ATT and ATC). In this case, we use cross-section statistics of all 189 countries based on the availability of data in 2018. 
 
Description of the Brown Bag Seminar concept :
The Brown Bag Seminar (BBS) is an informal one-hour workshop with aim of presenting research in different stages of design (ideas, rounded theoretical framework, conducted empirical research, etc.), promoting discussion and creating a stimulating environment focused on constructive discussion between exhibitors and the rest of participants of the seminar. The basic idea of the BBS is to create a platform where at least once a month, the FEB ZG employees will have the opportunity to present the ideas and articles they work on within their scientific-research work.We invite you to respond and help with your constructive comments to exhibitors, and expose by yourself the topics you are currently working on, unpublished works or present the research ideas you are thinking about.
The idea is that presentations (in English or in Croatian - depending on the presenter's preference) last for 30-40 minutes, followed by a discussion. Since the BBS is informal and is usually taking place at lunch time, snacks and refreshing beverages will be served on the BBS.