The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.
Wexner 434 AB, Zoom (registration information below)
The Growth Lab's Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.
Speaker: Andres Valenciano, John F. Kennedy Fellow, HKS MC/MPA '23
Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.
Speaker: Vincent Pons, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Abstract: In most national elections, voters face a key choice between continuity and change. Electoral turnovers occur when the incumbent candidate or party fails to...
Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.
Speaker: Gonzalo Huertas, Economist, International Monetary Fund
Abstract: I conduct interviews with 32 Central Bankers from Emerging Markets and present five unifying themes that explain their behavior when reacting to a U.S. monetary tightening. I then estimate the impulse response functions of their two main monetary tools, the policy rate...
The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.
Speaker:Dr. Raymond Robertson, Director of the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy, Professor, and Helen and Roy Ryu Chair in Economics and Government, the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M
Abstract: In this paper, we revisit and assess the heterogeneous effects of RTAs on trade flows. Using the...
The Growth Lab's Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.
Speaker: Joseph Henrich, Ruth Moore Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.
Speaker: Sebastian Braun, Professor of Economics, University of Bayreuth
Abstract: This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the...
T-520 Allison Dining Room, Zoom (registration information below)
The Growth Lab's Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.
Speakers: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Silver Professor; Professor of Politics, New York University ...
Wexner 434 AB, Zoom (registration information below)
The Growth Lab's Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. This event is co-sponsored by Harvard's Center for African Studies.
Speaker: Ann Bernstein, Executive Director, Centre for Development and Enterprise, South Africa
Moderator: Soraya Mohideen, Harvard South Africa Fellow, HKS Mid-Career MPA '23
Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.
Speaker: R. Maria del Rio Chanona, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Complexity Science Hub Vienna
Abstract: In the first part of this talk, we present a non-equilibrium and data-driven network model for understanding how workers adapt to changes in labor demand. In this model, workers move through an empirically derived occupational mobility network in response to...