NOVAFRICA Seminar “Diffusion of Rival Information in the Field”
On Wednesday, December 4, at 02.30 pm, Inês Vilela from Nova School of Business and Economics will present her job market paper about the effect of... Read More
NOVAFRICA Working Paper: “Aspirations, Expectations, Identities: Behavioral Constraints of Micro-Entrepreneurs”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Papers Series. Written by Catia Batista and Julia Seither, this paper experimentally evaluates an... Read More
NOVAFRICA Working Paper: “Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Papers Series. Written by Alex Armand, Alexander Coutts, Pedro C. Vicente and Inês Vilela this... Read More
NOVAFRICA in the Spotlight
On July 3rd, 2018, Cátia Batista and Pedro Vicente gave an interview to the University of Notre Dame. Catia and Pedro discussed their three-year study on mobile money... Read More
A talk with António Cruz
On November 7th, 2018, António Cruz gave a talk in the NOVAFRICA Seminar Series. His seminar was entitled “Industries without smokestacks: Mozambique case study”. After the... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar: “Industries without smokestacks: Mozambique case study”
On Wednesday, November 7, at 2.30 pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes António Cruz, from UNU-WIDER, to present his work. Author: António Cruz, UNU-WIDER Abstract: Under the current... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar: “Keeping Up with the Joneses: Relative Performance Feedback and Business Performance”
On Wednesday, September 19th, at 14.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Julia Seither from the Nova SBE, to present her work. Author: Julia Seither (Nova SBE) Abstract: In... Read More
NOVAFRICA Working Paper: “Keep It Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing in Social Networks”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Cátia Batista, Marcel Fafchamps and Pedro Vicente this paper analyzes the information... Read More
NOVAFRICA Program: Second edition of the MDI in Portuguese
NOVAFRICA organized the second edition of the Management Development Institute (MDI) in Portuguese, which occurred from 26 August to 01 September 2018 in Maputo, Mozambique.... Read More
Annual Report 2016
Since its creation in 2011, the NOVAFRICA center has produced substantial output in the field of business and economic development in African countries. Specifically, we... Read More
