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SUMMARY:Hyperspecialization and Hyperscaling: A Resource-based Theory of the Digital Firm
DESCRIPTION: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: Gianluigi Giustiziero\, Assistant Professor of Strategy\, IE Business School 	Abstract: Digital firms tend to be both narrow in their vertical scope and large in their scale. We explain this phenomenon through a theory about how attributes of firms’ resource bundles impact their scale and specialization. We posit that highly scalable resource bundles entail significant opportunity costs of integration (versus outsourcing)\, which simultaneously drive “hyperspecialization” and “hyperscaling” in digital firms. Using descriptive theory and a formal model\, we develop several propositions that align with observed features of digital businesses. We offer a parsimonious modeling framework for resource-based theorizing about highly scalable digital firms\, shed light on the phenomenon of digital scaling\, and provide insights into the far-reaching ways that technology-enabled resources are reshaping firms in the digital economy. 	Please register in advance\, and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. \nAbout the speaker:  	Gianluigi Giustiziero is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at IE Business School. He received his PhD in Strategy from the University of Michigan. Inspired by the classical work of Adam Smith and George Stigler\, Gianluigi studies the impact of resource attributes and demand characteristics on the division of labor. At the time of their writing Adam Smith drew insights from butchers\, bakers and brewers in the Highlands of Scotland in 1776\, and George Stigler from the Lancashire textile industry in 1951; nowadays the productive system in developed economies is mainly devoted to the tertiary and quaternary sectors. Moving with the times\, Gianluigi applies and extends the classic theories to service and high-tech industries.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/hyperspecialization-and-hyperscaling-a-resource-based-theory-of-the-digital-firm/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:The Impact of Automation and the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Labor Market and the Causes of the Great Resignation
DESCRIPTION: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 automation scenarios. We find that the network structure is essential in determining unemployment levels\, with occupations in particular areas of the network having few job transition opportunities. In the second part\, we discuss how the Covid-19 pandemic affected the economy and how it led to the Great Resignation (i.e.\, the U.S. record high quit rates reached 2021) in the longer term. We use Reddit data and text analysis to show that mental health concerns have increased among the job quitting discourse since the start of the pandemic\, likely contributing to the rise in quits. 	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public.  \nAbout the speaker: 	Maria del Rio-Chanona has been a JSMF (James S. McDonnell Foundation) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna since June 2021 and affiliate at the Growth Lab at Harvard University’s Center for International Development (CID) for the Fall semester 2022. Maria has a PhD in mathematics from Oxford University\, where she was part of the complexity economics group of the Institute for New Economic Thinking\, Oxford Martin School. She has worked alongside international policy organizations\, including the International Monetary Fund and the International Labour Organisation. Maria did her undergraduate studies in physics at UNAM\, Mexico. Maria’s research draws from network science\, natural language processing\, and agent-based modeling and focuses on the future of work\, green transition\, Great Resignation\, and the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/the-impact-of-automation-and-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-the-labor-market-and-the-causes-of-the-great-resignation/
LOCATION:Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Reversing Fortunes of German Regions\, 1926–2019: Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?
DESCRIPTION: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 significant changes in Germany’s economic geography observed in recent decades. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West Germany\, we establish that nearly half of them experienced a reversal of fortune between 1926 and 2019\, i.e.\, they moved from the lower to the upper median of the income distribution or vice versa. Economic decline is concentrated in North Germany\, economic ascent in the South. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in access to coal\, we show that early industrialization turned from an advantage for economic development to a burden after World War II. The dominant position of heavy industry\, supported by the local political-administrative system\, limited regional adaptability when the old industries fell into crisis. Today\, the early industrialized regions suffer from low innovation and deindustrialization. The (time-varying) effect of industrialization explains most of the decline in regional inequality observed in the 1960s and 1970s and about half of the current north-south gap in economic development. 	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. 	About the speaker: 	Sebastian Braun is Professor of Economics at the University of Bayreuth where he holds the chair for Quantitative Economic History. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Before joining the University of Bayreuth\, he was an Associate Professor at the University of St Andrews and a Senior Researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Sebastian works at the intersection of international and regional economics\, labor economics\, and quantitative economic history. His main current research is on the economic effects of immigration and the causes of regional differences in economic development\, with a focus on Germany in the 19th and 20th century. His current work on the long-term effects of industrialization on regional economic development in Germany is supported by a grant of the German Science Foundation.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/reversing-fortunes-of-german-regions-1926-2019-boon-and-bane-of-early-industrialization/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Heterogeneous Trade Agreements: Evidence from Apparel Trade
DESCRIPTION: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 Poisson Pseudo maximum likelihood (PPML) estimator with high-dimensional fixed effects\, we account for multiple characteristics of the trading partners\, including their membership in other RTAs\, and the problem of incidental parameters. Our main focus is on apparel trade\, which is politically sensitive and tends to have heterogeneous Rules of Origin (ROOs) within RTAs. Studies show that ROOs can restrict trade if they are either complicated or narrowly specified (Cadot and de Melo 2007\, Angeli et al. 2020) and we show that the variance of the estimated effect of RTAs on apparel trade is significantly higher than the variance for total trade. In addition to contributing to trade agreement heterogeneity\, apparel also plays a pivotal role in economic development and reducing emigration by drawing workers from agriculture and informality because apparel production has lower start-up costs and pays higher wages than other domestic alternatives for similar workers (Robertson et al. 2020 and 2022). Together our results suggest that understanding trade agreement heterogeneity\, especially in the apparel sector\, can have significant policy implications. Focusing on the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR)\, for example\, suggests that updating ROOs could significantly reduce migration from Central America. 	Please register in advance.  	About the speaker: 	Dr. Raymond Robertson is Professor and holder of the Helen and Roy Ryu Chair in Economics and Government in the Departments of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service and the Director of the Mosbacher Institute for Trade\, Economics\, and Public Policy. He is a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn\, Germany\, and a senior research fellow at the Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center. He was named a 2018 Presidential Impact Fellow by Texas A&M University. Robertson earned a BA in political science and economics from Trinity University in San Antonio\, Texas\, and an MS and PhD in economics from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at the Graduate School of Administration\, Monterrey Institute of Technology’s Mexico City campus. Widely published in the field of labor economics and international economics\, Robertson previously chaired the US Department of Labor’s National Advisory Committee for Labor Provisions of the US Free Trade Agreements and served on both the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and the Center for Global Development’s advisory board.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/heterogeneous-trade-agreements-evidence-from-apparel-trade/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221121T111500
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SUMMARY:Why Follow the Fed? Monetary Policy in Times of US Tightening
DESCRIPTION: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 and foreign exchange interventions\, to an increase in the U.S. rate\, using the answers from the interviews as a guide for the best econometric specification. I find that most Central Banks react to a U.S. tightening by raising domestic rates\, regardless of the exchange rate regime\, but their reasons for doing so vary — from controlling inflation to preventing capital outflows. 	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. \nAbout the speaker: 	Gonzalo Huertas is an economist at the International Monetary Fund. He specializes in international macroeconomics\, with a focus on monetary policy\, capital flows\, and debt sustainability. Previously\, he conducted research at the Peterson Institute for International Economics\, and has worked in policy at the Ministry of Finance of Mexico and the National Cabinet of Ministers of Argentina.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/why-follow-the-fed-monetary-policy-in-times-of-us-tightening/
LOCATION:Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221128T111500
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Electoral Turnovers
DESCRIPTION: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 win reelection. To understand how turnovers affect national outcomes\, we study the universe of residential and parliamentary elections held since 1945. We document the prevalence of turnovers over time and estimate their effects on economic performance\, trade\, human development\, conflict\, and democracy. Using a close-elections regression discontinuity design (RDD) across countries\, we show that turnovers improve country performance. These effects are not driven by differences in the characteristics of challengers\, or by the fact that challengers systematically increase the level of government intervention in the economy. Electing new leaders leads to more policy change\, it improves governance\, and it reduces perceived corruption\, consistent with the expectation that recently elected leaders exert more effort due to stronger reputation concerns. 	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. \nAbout the speaker: 	Vincent Pons is an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School\, and affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)\, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)\, and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). ​ 	Across the world\, dissatisfaction with elected governments is at all-time highs. His research aims to understand why representative democracies can fail to deliver leaders\, policies and outcomes aligned with people’s preferences. His work has appeared in journals such as Econometrica\, the American Economic Review\, the Quarterly Journal of Economics\, and the American Political Science Review. It has been covered by The New York Times\, The Economist\, PRI’s The World\, the Huffington Post\, le Monde\, and BFM Business among others.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-electoral-turnovers/
LOCATION:Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221205T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221205T123000
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SUMMARY:Green Technological Diversification: The Role of International Linkages in Leader and Follower Countries
DESCRIPTION: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: Andrea Morrison\, Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Political and Social Sciences\, University of Pavia	 			Abstract: To achieve a more environmentally sustainable economy\, countries must diversify their innovation efforts towards green technologies. Technological diversification is understood as a path-dependent process constrained by endogenous (local) capabilities. In this context\, the increasing global connectivity and the internationalization of innovative activity makes the role of external knowledge linkages more and more relevant.  This paper investigates the process of green technological diversification in 49 countries over a 40-year time span\, aiming at unveiling the role of external linkages\, as proxied by co-inventor collaborations. Results show that international co-inventor linkages among countries with complementary capabilities support green diversification. On the other hand\, the existence of linkages per se facilitates does not affect diversification.				 				This seminar will take place via Zoom. Please register in advance.				 				About the speaker: Andrea Morrison is currently Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Political and Social Sciences\, University of Pavia and Adjunct Professor of Innovation and Sustainability at the Department of Management and Technology\, Bocconi University. He is also research fellow at ICRIOS Bocconi University. He holds a M.A in Development Economics from the University of Sussex and a Ph.D. in Economic Development\, Institutions and Sustainability from the University of Roma Tre. His research interests lie in the areas of evolutionary economics\, innovation studies and economic geography. He has investigated extensively topics like system of innovation\, industrial clusters and knowledge networks\, global value chain\, green innovation\, high skilled migration.		 	 	 	 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/green-technological-diversification-the-role-of-international-linkages-in-leader-and-follower-countries/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221212T111500
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SUMMARY:Firm-Level Production Networks: What Do We (Really) Know?
DESCRIPTION: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: François Lafond  	  	Abstract: Firm-level datasets on production networks are often confidential and arise from different data collection methods\, making it difficult to determine stylized facts. Are standard network properties similar across all available datasets\, and if not\, why? We provide benchmark results from two administrative data sets (Ecuador and Hungary) which are exceptional in that there are no reporting thresholds. We compare these networks to a leading commercial data set (FactSet)\, and a systematic synthesis of published results. The administrative data sets with no reporting thresholds have remarkably similar properties\, but differ substantially from non-administrative sources\, or from administrative datasets with higher reporting thresholds. Our results provide a roadmap for a distributed micro-data project\, offer insights into the direction of biases on key metrics when using partial datasets\, and have wide implications for reconstructing the global firm-level production network and for modelling heterogeneity in macro. (Joint work with Andrea Bacilieri\, András Borsos\, and Pablo Astudillo-Estevez). 	  	The seminar will be on Zoom. The link to the registration page is: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/640145716?pwd=bTUxOXRad0o2ZTJtbWRxTGpta1BlQT09 	  	About the Speaker: François Lafond is deputy director of the Complexity Economics group at the Institute for New Economic Thinking\, University of Oxford\, and an associate member of Nuffield college\, Oxford. His main areas of research are in the economics of innovation and productivity\, environmental economics\, networks and complex systems\, applied econometrics and forecasting. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/firm-level-production-networks-what-do-we-really-know/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230123T111500
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Author Location & Attention on Open Science Platforms / Evidence from COVID-19 Preprints
DESCRIPTION: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: Megan MacGarvie\,  Associate Professor\, Boston University/Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research 	Abstract: Online platforms such as preprint servers have become an important way to disseminate new scientific knowledge prior to peer review. However\, little is known about how attention to preprints may vary across authors from different locations\, particularly relative to evaluation in expert-controlled systems such as scientific journals. This study explores how readers allocated attention across preprints in the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic\, a time when there was an increase in demand for new research and a corresponding increase in the use of preprint platforms around the world. We find that\, after controlling carefully for article quality and topic as well as the prominence of the preprint’s ultimate publication outlet\, preprints with authors from Chinese institutions receive less attention\, and preprints with authors from US institutions receive more attention\, than preprints with authors from the rest of the world. In an exploration of potential mechanisms driving the observed effects\, we find evidence that when evaluation is more constrained\, in terms of lack of knowledge or expertise and increase in time pressure\, audiences tend to make greater use of preprint authors’ country as a proxy for quality or relevance. The results suggest that geographic biases may persist or even be exacerbated on platforms designed to promote unfettered access to early research findings. 	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. 	About the Speaker: Megan MacGarvie is Associate Professor in the department of Markets\, Public Policy and Law at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University\, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, Cambridge\, MA. Her research focuses on the economics of innovation and intellectual property. Recent work has analyzed the impact of international mobility of US-trained STEM doctoral recipients on research productivity\, collaboration\, and knowledge diffusion; entrepreneurship and innovation among foreign-born STEM doctoral recipients and post-docs; and the impact of US immigration policy on the return migration choices of foreign-born scientists in the U.S.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-author-location-attention-on-open-science-platforms-evidence-from-covid-19-preprints/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230130T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230130T123000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Academic Science and Corporate Innovation
DESCRIPTION: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: Seungryul Ryan Shin\, Post-Doctoral Researcher at Cornell University. 	Abstract:  This study examines how academic science shapes the dynamics of corporate innovation. An experiment that as-good-as-randomly exposes academic science to corporate inventors reveals that such exposure increases the corporate inventors’ science-based inventions as well as inventions using novel technological approaches. Furthermore\, exposure to academic science increases the number of inventions on the extremes\, i.e.\, inventions with no future impact and inventions that are highly impactful. The findings point to the role of academic science as a map in both scientific and technological search\, albeit one whose guidance may lead to a dead-end or a promising destination. 	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. 	About the Speaker: Seungryul Ryan Shin is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Cornell University. His research interests lie in innovation from both aspects of management and economics. His recent work investigated the impact of high-skilled human capital on regional entrepreneurship\, the role of patents filed by government scientists in the diffusion of government science\, and how academic science shapes corporate innovation. 	  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-academic-science-and-corporate-innovation/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T123000
DTSTAMP:20250910T003653Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Dynamic industrial policy for climate change
DESCRIPTION: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: Gregory Nemet\, Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison 	Abstract: We need a new approach to climate policy that puts innovation and adoption of low carbon technologies at the center.  Unexpectedly large improvements in low-carbon technology over the past 20 years have made decarbonizing the world economy far more feasible; we can peak emissions soon\, rapidly decline to zero\, and do so in a way that enhances human well-being.  At the same time\, three decades of dithering on policy action combined with heightened estimates of climate sensitivity and their human impacts have made the climate problem more urgent.  The extent of change required to the world economy is massive and robust public policy is necessary to accelerate sufficient change.  Wind\, solar\, and batteries have improved by a combination of enabling science\, supportive policies\, and a variety of receptive markets\, all of which have led them down the technology learning curve.  That has made a transition to a low carbon economy far more affordable\, on the scale of trillions in savings over the century. Further\, other emerging technologies show strong potential to follow a similar learning curve leading to improved performance and low costs.  In particular\, electrolyzers\, small scale direct air capture\, and heat pumps could play central roles in a decarbonized world economy\, especially if they improve like solar\, wind\, and batteries.  General purpose technologies such as digitalization and synthetic biology can enhance these systems.  I argue\, we should focus our policy efforts on improving and adopting these technologies.  The goal should be to expand the set of choices we will have in the future rather than on minimizing costs today.  Successful examples indicate that this approach has a few core characteristics: it requires multiple ppolicy instruments\, not one; it involves deeper engagement by the state in low carbon innovation; and goes beyond just the technology itself to elevate the role of social acceptance; and its goals reflect urgency and acceleration. 	  	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. 	  	About the Speaker: Gregory Nemet is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the La Follette School of Public Affairs.  He teaches courses in policy analysis\, energy systems\, and international environmental policy.  Nemet’s research focuses on understanding the process of technological change and the ways in which public policy can affect it.  He received his doctorate in energy and resources from the University of California\, Berkeley. His A.B. is in geography and economics from Dartmouth College.  He received an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2017 and used it to write a book on how solar PV provides lessons for the development of other low-carbon technologies: “How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation” (Routledge 2019).  He was awarded the inaugural World Citizen Prize in Environmental Performance by APPAM in 2019.  He is currently a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 6th Assessment Report. His research interests lie in innovation from both aspects of management and economics. His recent work investigated the impact of high-skilled human capital on regional entrepreneurship\, the role of patents filed by government scientists in the diffusion of government science\, and how academic science shapes corporate innovation. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-dynamic-industrial-policy-for-climate-change/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS and virtual
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T231500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230214T003000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Superstar Teams- The Micro Origins and Macro Implications of Coworker Complementarities
DESCRIPTION: 							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: Lukas Freund\, PhD candidate in Economics and Gates scholar at the University of Cambridge			 							Abstract: Modern production frequently involves teamwork among employees specialized in different tasks. I develop a model of teams in which firms assign tasks to workers who are heterogeneous in their overall quality and whose efficiency varies across different tasks. In addition to productivity gains\, the division of labor endogenously generates coworker complementarities: the marginal productivity of one employee’s quality is increasing in other team members’ quality. This interdependence is stronger when variation in worker-task specific efficiencies is high. In frictional labor markets\, coworker complementarities carry macroeconomic implications for both productivity and inequality. Coworker quality mismatch lowers team productivity\, leading employers to search for workers of similar quality. In equilibrium\, firms with “superstar teams” pull away in terms of productivity and pay. I validate the model’s key mechanisms using administrative micro data. Paralleling a shift in the nature of tasks\, a theory-informed measure of coworker complementarities has doubled since 1990. A structural estimation exercise suggests that this rise explains between one quarter and one half of the increase in the between-firm share of wage inequality in Germany (1990-2010).			 							 			 							Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public.			 							 			 							About the Speaker: Lukas Freund is a PhD candidate in Economics and Gates scholar at the University of Cambridge\, visiting Princeton University during the academic year 2022/2023. His research focuses on macro- and labor economics and has been published in the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Review of Economics Dynamics. In addition\, he is a consultant for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and has previously visited the Bank of England and Deutsche Bundesbank. Prior to the PhD\, he completed undergraduate and master degrees at the University of Oxford.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-superstar-teams-the-micro-origins-and-macro-implications-of-coworker-complementarities/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T123000
DTSTAMP:20250910T004535Z
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SUMMARY:The Fastest Route to Specialization? Evidence from the Expansion of the Italian Highway System
DESCRIPTION: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: Sara Bagagli\, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics at Harvard University 	Abstract: I analyze the effects of a large public transportation infrastructure investment on the industrial structure of local economies in modern Italy. In 20 years\, between 1955 and 1975\, more than 5\,000 km of highways were laid down in the peninsula\, making the Italian highway network the third longest worldwide at the time. The network was however disproportionate relative to national income and consumption levels and came as a shock to many localized environments. I show that proximity to highways is associated with a sizable and persistent decrease in the degree of industrial specialization. The results hold similar when looking within traded and non-traded sectors separately. A decomposition exercise further shows that\, among non-traded sectors\, the decrease is mainly driven by a reallocation of employment shares between sectors\, rather than by an extensive margin effect through the creation of new sectors. For traded sectors instead\, I first observe a net increase in the number of sectors with non-zero employment in the earliest periods into treatment\, followed by a significant reallocation of employment shares between sectors of the local economies. As a next step\, I am further investigating the channels at work\, exploiting the rich heterogeneity that characterizes the local economies scattered across the Italian peninsula. 	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. 	About the Speaker: Since Fall 2022\, Sara Bagagli is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Her main research interests are Urban Economics and Economic Geography. One line of research studies the role of urban forms in shaping the distribution of people across space. Another line of research investigates the effects of changes in transportation costs on the structure of local economies. Sara finished her PhD in Economics from the University of Zurich in Summer 2022. 	  	See also: Event\, Academic Research Seminars\, Academic Research
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/the-fastest-route-to-specialization-evidence-from-the-expansion-of-the-italian-highway-system/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230306T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230306T123000
DTSTAMP:20250910T004224Z
CREATED:20230228T220900Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Uncovering Commercial Activity in Informal Cities
DESCRIPTION: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: Neave O’Clery\, Associate Professor and Director of Research at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London 	Abstract: Knowledge of the spatial organization of economic activity within a city is a key to policy concerns. However\, in developing cities with high levels of informality\, this information is often unavailable. Recent progress in machine learning together with the availability of street imagery offers an affordable and easily automated solution. Here\, we propose an algorithm that can detect what we call visible establishments using street view imagery. By using Medellín\, Colombia as a case study\, we illustrate how this approach can be used to uncover previously unseen economic activity. By applying spatial analysis to our dataset\, we detect a polycentric structure with five distinct clusters located in both the established centre and peripheral areas. Comparing the density of visible establishments with that of registered firms\, we infer that informal activity concentrates in poor but densely populated areas. Our findings highlight the large gap between what is captured in official data and the reality on the ground. 	Please register in advance.  The Zoom webinar is open to the public. 	About the Speaker: Neave O’Clery is Associate Professor and Director of Research at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London where she leads an inter-disciplinary research group focused on data-driven models for economic development and urban systems. She is also a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute\, as well as a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Mathematical Institute and an Oxford Martin Fellow. Her work spans a number of topics and fields including structural change and industrial development\, economic complexity and evolutionary economic geography\, the informal economy\, urban mobility and segregation\, and network science. She also works alongside a number of policy and government institutions ranging from city majors to global multi-laterals including the UK and Irish governments and the World Bank. Neave was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford\, and before this a Fulbright Scholar and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is founder and co-chair of the Oxford Summer School in Economic Networks\, an annual multi-disciplinary summer school since 2017. She holds a PhD (mathematics) from Imperial College. 	  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-uncovering-commercial-activity-in-informal-cities/
LOCATION:Virtual/ Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T113000
DTSTAMP:20250910T004045Z
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UID:15033-1678702500-1678707000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Structural Change in Export Activities: An Exploration Using Occupations Data
DESCRIPTION: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: Hagen Kruse\, PhD candidate and Research affiliate of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre @University of GroningenAbstract: Traditionally\, comparative advantage in exporting is measured at the level of products or industries. However\, with international production fragmentation\, countries specialize in activities along the production chain rather than in particular products. This paper therefore explores changes in the structure of exports at the level of activities for a set of 53 countries. Activities are measured using new internationally harmonized statistics on labour income of 13 detailed occupation classes of workers in 35 industries. Income shares from engineering\, management\, and support services increase as countries grow richer. New specializations have a strong proximity to the initial export basket\, especially for routine manual intensive activities in developing countries. Some countries appear to specialize more in new activities that are relatively unrelated to their initial specializations. This is found to be positively related to income growth. 	About the Speaker: Hagen Kruse is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen and research affiliate of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC). His research focuses on the role of international trade in shaping modern patterns of structural change in developing countries. His first chapter was recently published in the IMF Economic Review and featured in media outlets such as The Economist\, Project Syndicate\, or UNIDO’s Industrial Analytics Platform. Current projects of Hagen are financially supported by the World Bank Group and a CEPR STEG research grant.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-structural-change-in-export-activities-an-exploration-using-occupations-data/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T233000
DTSTAMP:20250910T003620Z
CREATED:20230316T001700Z
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UID:15005-1679307300-1679355000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Deconstructing Human Capital to Construct Nestedness
DESCRIPTION: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: Hyejin Youn is an associate professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University\, and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)\, and an external faculty at Santa Fe Institute and serves as Associate Editor at PLOS One and Management Science.In this talk\, Hyejin Youn will explore the geographic and demographic disparities in wealth based on the distribution of skills acquired in school and in the workplace. Analyzing individuals’ career changes and demographic age of occupations reveals that “nested skills” are needed more as one moves up the career ladder. Historical changes in occupation skill requirements show that these branches have become more fragmented over the decade\, suggesting the increasing labor gap. 	Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yrXaEgr3TqyjZKU1EecoUAWhether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-deconstructing-human-capital-to-construct-nestedness/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T113000
DTSTAMP:20250910T003956Z
CREATED:20230323T172500Z
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UID:15027-1679912100-1679916600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Opportunities and Challenges in the Use of Alternative Data Sources to Study Migratory Phenomena
DESCRIPTION: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: Stefano M. Iacus is the Director of Data Science and Product Research at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science\, Harvard University. He is working closely with the Dataverse (Managing Director of the Dataverse Project) and OpenDP (executive committee member) projects and well as with the Data Science Services at IQSS. 	Abstract: With the consolidation of the culture of evidence-based policymaking\, the availability of data has become central to policymakers especially in time of crisis. Focusing on migration studies\, this seminar will provide an overview of the current state of data innovation in the scientific literature and then point out at areas in which data innovation has the most concrete potential. 	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-opportunities-and-challenges-in-the-use-of-alternative-data-sources-to-study-migratory-phenomena/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T113000
DTSTAMP:20250910T004128Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Tackling the UK’s Regional Economic Inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention
DESCRIPTION: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.Location: Weil Town Hall\, Belfer\, HKS/ZoomWhether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public.About the Seminar: The UK is one of the most regionally unequal industrialized economies. In this seminar\, Ed Balls and Anna Stansbury will discuss the UK’s regional economic inequality from the perspective of productivity disparities between large regions\, focusing on the gap between London/South East vs the rest\, looking at four important economic inputs – education\, infrastructure\, innovation\, and access to finance – for each one building up a collage of evidence to gauge the extent to which it is a binding constraint on regions’ productivity growth. They emphasize that economic opportunity for those from outside London and the South East is curtailed by London’s overheating housing market\, which limits interregional mobility. 	About the Speakers: Ed Balls is a broadcaster\, writer and economist. He is Professor of Political Economy at King’s College\, London and a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Ed\, a former Member of Parliament\, was UK Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (2011-2015) and served in the UK Cabinet as Secretary of State for Children\, Schools and Families (2007-2010). He was the UK Minister for Financial Services (2006-2007) and the Chief Economic Adviser to the UK Treasury (1999-2004) during which time he was Chair of the IMFC Deputies and UK G20 Deputy. 	Anna Stansbury is an Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies at MIT Sloan School of Management. She is a labor and macroeconomist whose work focuses on inequality and productivity in industrialized economies. She has a PhD in Economics from Harvard\, an MPP from the Kennedy School\, and a BA in Economics from Cambridge – and was a former part-time Growth Lab RA before her PhD! 	Read the full Research Paper: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/publications/awp/awp198VoxEU summary link: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/how-tackle-uks-regional-economic-inequality-focus-stem-transport-and-innovation
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-tackling-the-uks-regional-economic-inequality-binding-constraints-and-avenues-for-policy-intervention/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T233000
DTSTAMP:20250910T004029Z
CREATED:20230405T203900Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Robot Adoption\, Organizational Capital and the Productivity Paradox
DESCRIPTION: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.Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public.Speaker: Rodimiro Rodrigo\, Assistant Professor at George Washington University School of Business.Abstract: Major technological changes have come with an adjustment period of stagnant productivity before the economy operates at its full potential. The mechanism of this adoption process is still not well understood. In this seminar\, Rodimiro Rodrigo will present his research on how productivity increases with a five-year lag after adopting industrial robots in Brazilian local labor markets. Combining employer-employee matched data with a novel measure of robot adoption\, he provides evidence of establishment-level labor reorganization and organizational capital depreciation induced by the automation process. He examines a model that highlights the role of organizational costs accompanying the adoption of new technologies\, illustrating its usefulness by using it to characterize the implications of the “innovator’s dilemma.”
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-robot-adoption-organizational-capital-and-the-productivity-paradox/
LOCATION:Weil Town Hall\, Belfer\, HKS/Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230424T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230424T113000
DTSTAMP:20250910T004020Z
CREATED:20230420T200600Z
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UID:15030-1682331300-1682335800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Regulation by Reputation? Intermediaries\, Labor Abuses & International Migration
DESCRIPTION: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. 	Please register in advance. 	Speaker: Nilesh Fernando\, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame 	About the Seminar: Migrant workers and employers rely on intermediaries to facilitate labor market placements. If information frictions obscure their reputation\, however\, intermediaries may under-invest in placement quality. Using data on over 1.5 million Sri Lankan migrants to the Gulf region\, Nilesh Fernando will examine the effects of an intermediary rating program that publicly revealed ratings two years after it was announced. Prior to the ratings being revealed\, eligible under-performing agencies invest in the rating criteria and place migrants with less abusive employers who pay higher salaries. Results suggest that the threat of quality revelation induced agencies to prospectively screen employers. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-regulation-by-reputation-intermediaries-labor-abuses-international-migration/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T113000
DTSTAMP:20250910T004037Z
CREATED:20230426T214200Z
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UID:15032-1682936100-1682940600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Self-Employment within the Firm
DESCRIPTION: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. 	Location: Online only/Zoom Please register in advance. 	Abstract: In this seminar\, Alessandra Peter\, Assistant Professor of Economics at NYU will share her research with Vittorio Bassi\, J. H. Lee\, Tommaso Porzio\, Ritwika Sen\, and Esau Tugume on the internal organization of firms in developing countries and how it affects their productivity and optimal size. They collected detailed time use data for 1\,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda and document limited within-firm labor specialization. Even in relatively large firms\, entrepreneurs and their employees work on similar tasks. As such\, firms resemble a collection of self-employed individuals who share a production location. To interpret the empirical evidence\, they develop an equilibrium model of task assignment\, firm size\, and occupational choice. They find that barriers to labor specialization generate decreasing returns to scale at the firm level\, which reduces the returns to entrepreneurial ability and keeps firms small in equilibrium. Given the internal organization of firms we document\, benefits from alleviating any other frictions that constrain firm growth are muted. 	About the speaker: Alessandra Peter is an assistant professor of Economics at NYU\, with a focus on Macroeconomics and Development. Her research analyzes constraints and barriers to firm growth in low-income countries as well as the effect of imperfect competition across firms on consumers in the United States.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-self-employment-within-the-firm/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230515T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230515T113000
DTSTAMP:20250910T003728Z
CREATED:20230510T211600Z
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UID:15013-1684146600-1684150200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Exploration and Exploitation in US Technological Change
DESCRIPTION: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. 	Location: Zoom 	Please register in advance. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. 	About the Seminar: How do firms and inventors move through knowledge space as they develop their innovations? In this seminar\, Vasco M. Carvalho proposes a method for tracking patterns of exploration and exploitation in patenting behaviour in the US for the period since 1920. The exploration measure is constructed from the text of patents and involves the use of Bayesian Surprise to measure how different current patent-based innovations are from existing portfolios. Results indicate that there are distinct life-cycle patterns to firm and inventor exploration. Furthermore\, exploration activity is more geographically concentrated than general patenting\, but this concentration is centered outside the main hubs of patenting.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-exploration-and-exploitation-in-us-technological-change/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T111500
DTSTAMP:20250910T004210Z
CREATED:20230906T182500Z
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UID:15041-1694599200-1694603700@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Research Seminar: The Role of Green & Non-Green Relatedness in the Development of New Green Specialization in Argentinean Provinces
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Register for the session. 	In this Research Seminar\, Andrea Belmartino will analyze the role of relatedness in developing new green specialisations for the Argentinean provinces between 2008-2019. Even though the global demand for green products creates development opportunities\, whether this applies to emerging economies is still under analysis. Therefore\, exploring how to leverage available capacities to facilitate the green transition is worthwhile. Her study draws on indices that capture knowledge bases to achieve this goal. Results show that developing a new green specialisation is positively related to productive capabilities\, proxied by relatedness density (green and non-green). In addition\, there the path dependent process benefits more wealthier provinces. 	About the Speaker: 	Andrea Belmartino is a PhD fellow in Urban Studies and Regional Science at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in L’Aquila (Italy). She holds a MA in Economics from Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina). She was a research assistant at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina). Her current research interests are related to regional capabilities to foster the green transition. In addition\, she is especially interested in the sustainability challenges and opportunities for Latin American economies. Since 2023\, she is co-coordinating the Regional Studies Association’s Research Network “Knowledge\, Innovation and Regional Development in South America (KIRDSA)”
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-role-of-green-non-green-relatedness-in-the-development-of-new-green-specialization-in-argentinean-provinces/
LOCATION:Online Only
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T111500
DTSTAMP:20250910T001652Z
CREATED:20230914T182800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001652Z
UID:14907-1695204000-1695208500@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technological Progress During the British Industrial Revolution
DESCRIPTION: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. 	This session is online only. Please register in advance.  	In this seminar\, Bruno Caprettini will discuss new data and present new evidence on the effects of labor scarcity on the adoption of labor-saving technology in industrializing England. Where the British armed forces recruited heavily\, more machines that economized on labor were adopted. For purposes of identification\, we focus on naval recruitment. Using warships’ ease of access to coastal locations as an instrument\, exogenous shocks to labor scarcity led to technology adoption. The same shocks are only weakly associated with the adoption of non-labor saving technologies. Importantly\, there is also a synergy between skill abundance and labor scarcity boosting technology adoption. Where labor shortages led to labor-saving machine adoption\, technology afterwards improved more rapidly. 	About the Speaker: Bruno Caprettini is Assistant Professor at the University of St Gallen\, where he is affiliated with the Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW). He holds a PhD from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). He is interested in the determinants of long-term growth\, both economic and political. Some of his work appeared on AER\, QJE and AER-Insights. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/fighting-for-growth-labor-scarcity-and-technological-progress-during-the-british-industrial-revolution/
LOCATION:Online Only
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T113000
DTSTAMP:20250910T001801Z
CREATED:20230921T164900Z
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UID:14913-1695808800-1695814200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Global and Regional Green Steel Transition: From Resource Potential to Supply Chain Re-configuration
DESCRIPTION: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.Speakers:Alli Devlin is a DPhil in Engineering Science Candidate at the University of Oxford.Aidong Yang is a Professor of Engineering Science and a Fellow of Green Templeton College\, Oxford.Today’s steel industry is one of the top industrial emitters\, responsible for ~8% of global carbon emissions. Decarbonising steelmaking is thus attracting significant attention of industrial players and policymakers\, with the green transition already gaining momentum in some countries (e.g.\, Sweden)\, although most steel production is still deeply reliant on fossil fuels. This transition will be a huge undertaking\, with great challenges in resource\, technology\, and economics to overcome. In this seminar\, the authors will focus on the physical aspects of green steelmaking\, sharing recent and ongoing mathematical modelling work on (1) understanding global resource potential for deploying green steel facilities\, particularly addressing the availability of renewable energy and suitable iron ore\, and (2) exploring potentially favourable supply chain (re-) configurations at the regional scale\, taking into account a wide range of technological options and their geographical allocation. The results highlight key opportunities and challenges from technical perspectives\, which will hopefully provide useful input to wider discussions about the green steel transition involving economics\, policies and development agendas. 	This seminar is online only. Please register in advance. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/global-and-regional-green-steel-transition-from-resource-potential-to-supply-chain-re-configuration/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T113000
DTSTAMP:20250916T175436Z
CREATED:20230928T191800Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Money\, Time\, and Grant Design
DESCRIPTION: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: Wei Yang Tham is a Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and Harvard Business SchoolAbstract: The design of research grants might be a useful tool for incentivizing more socially valuable science. To better understand the value of grant design as a policy instrument\, we conduct two sets of thought experiments in a nationally representative survey of academic researchers. First\, we test whether grants with randomized attributes induce different research strategies. Longer grants increase researchers’ willingness to take risks\, but only amongst tenured professors\, suggesting that job security and grant duration are complementary incentives. Larger grants increase researchers’ willingness to expand ongoing projects\, while smaller grants increase researchers’ focus on starting new projects. In our second experiment\, we estimate researchers’ willingness to trade off grant size and duration. We find that researchers are relatively unwilling to trade off the amount of funding a grant provides in order to extend the duration of the grant — more money is much more valuable than more time. 	Whether attending in-person or online\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating is available on a first-come\, first-served basis. Zoom attendance is open to the public. \nAbout the speaker: 	Wei Yang Tham is a Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and Harvard Business School. He completed his PhD in Economics at Ohio State University in 2019. Dr. Tham studies innovation and knowledge production in the context of science. His recent work includes eliciting researchers’ preferences and responses to grant design\, studying how funding delays affect the movement of human capital across sectors and borders\, and estimating the knowledge production function to better understand the optimal distribution of resources in research.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-money-time-and-grant-design/
LOCATION:Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar:  Dancing With the Stars -Innovations through Interactions
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	In this hybrid seminar\, Santiago Caicedo\, an Associate Professor at the Economics Department and Finance Group at Northeastern University will discuss his research on innovation\, which uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers and patents. 	Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. 	Paper Abstract: An inventor’s own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with and learning from others. This paper uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers and patents. We document key empirical facts on inventors’ productivity over the life cycle\, inventors’ research teams\, and interactions with other inventors. Among others\, most patents are the result of collaborative work. Inter- actions with better inventors are very strongly correlated with higher subsequent productivity. These facts motivate the main ingredients of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model\, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of inventors using inventor knowledge. The evolution of an inventor’s knowledge is explained through the lens of a diffusion model in which inventors can learn in two ways: By interacting with others at an endogenously chosen rate; and from an external\, age-dependent source that captures alternative learning channels\, such as learning-by-doing. 	About the Speaker: Santiago Caicedo is an Associate Professor at the Economics Department and Finance Group at Northeastern University. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. His research connects microdata with economic theory to study social interactions\, human capital formation\, economic growth\, and innovation.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-dancing-with-the-stars-innovations-through-interactions/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS (Harvard Community) & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: New U.S. Industrial Innovation Policies
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s 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: William B. Bonvillian\, Lecturer at MIT\, and Senior Director for special projects at MIT’s Office of Open Learning 	Despite longstanding opposition from mainstream economists and neoliberal perspectives to industrial policy\, the United States\, confronted by advanced technology competition from China\, climate change\, and a global pandemic\, adopted from 2020-2022 a series of major industrial policy programs. Although the U.S. Defense Department has long practiced industrial policy approaches\, and the U.S. has followed industrial economic policies in its agriculture\, transportation\, electric power and healthcare sectors\, the new programs focused on promoting technology innovation\, so can be labeled “industrial innovation policy.” The large scale of these efforts amounted to a new step for the U.S. in non-defense sectors. 	This talk will review six major examples of new U.S. industrial innovation policies. All involve federal government interventions into the post-research phases of innovation\, from development to prototyping\, testing\, demonstration\, and production.  	Summary Paper 	Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. 			About the speaker:	 	William B. Bonvillian is a Lecturer at MIT\, and Senior Director for special projects at MIT’s Office of Open Learning\, leading research projects on workforce education and technology issues. From 2006 until 2017\, he was director of MIT’s Washington Office\, supporting MIT’s longstanding role in science policy at the national level. He served as an advisor to MIT’s major cross-campus national policy initiatives on advanced manufacturing\, energy technology\, life science convergence and online education. He was an MIT representative to President Obama’s industry-university Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) which formed U.S. manufacturing policies in the 2011-2016 period. He teaches courses on innovation systems and science and technology policy at MIT in the and Science Technology and Society and Political Science Departments. Previously\, he worked for over 15 years on science and innovation issues as a senior advisor in the U.S. Senate\, and earlier was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-new-u-s-industrial-innovation-policies/
LOCATION:Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: The Growing Use of Economic Complexity in EU Policy
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s 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: Pierre-Alexandre Balland (Utrecht University & AI Toulouse Institute) 	In this hybrid seminar\, Pierre-Alexandre Balland will review the growing use of economic complexity within different sections of the European Commission\, EU member states\, and EU regions. He will then highlight existing limitations and blindspots that the field seriously needs to address. Finally\, Pierre-Alex will delve into new policy use cases that could benefit from a complexity angle in the near future. 	Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. 	Paper Abstract: Economic complexity offers a powerful paradigm to understand key societal issues and challenges of our time. By focusing on the underlying structure of the economy and systemic interactions it offers new insights on growth\, technological change\, regional evolution\, or inequality. As a result\, policy makers around the world are increasingly using economic complexity heuristics and metrics to guide their decisions. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-growing-use-of-economic-complexity-in-eu-policy/
LOCATION:HYBRID W434 A.B.\, HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Firms in Product Space: Adoption\, Growth and Competition
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s 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: John Morrow\, Reader in Economics at King’s Business School 	Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.Paper Abstract: Which products are potentially produced together? Can any firm eventually supply any new demand? Using multi-product production patterns within and across firms\, we recover a continuous cost based distance between products and firms. Product distance implies a product adoption path\, with each rank of distance decreasing adoption frequency. When export demand for unproduced products induces domestic adoption\, closer firms supply them. Counterfactual production costs imply measures of Revenue Potential and Competitive Pressure. These predict firm sales growth\, scope growth and core focus. If all firms produced all products linked by co-production\, consumer welfare would increase by 20-30%. 	About the Speaker: John Morrow is a Reader in Economics at King’s Business School and is affiliated to the Centre for Economic Performance and Centre for Economic Policy Research. His main research studies firm responses to economic changes such as trade or industrial policies and the consequences for productivity and efficiency\, especially in developing countries. John completed a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a recipient of the FIW Young Economist Award and ETSG Chair Jacquemin Prize. John has taught at Kent State University\, London School of Economics\, University of Essex and Birkbeck College. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/firms-in-product-space-adoption-growth-and-competition/
LOCATION:HYBRID Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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