BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Growth Lab - ECPv6.18.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Growth Lab REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T123000 DTSTAMP:20250910T003719Z CREATED:20240208T014000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003719Z UID:15012-1709118000-1709123400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Embedding Scientific Migrations 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: Dakota Murray\, Research Assistant Professor\, Northeastern University Location: HYBRID / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.Paper Abstract:  Human migration and mobility drives major societal phenomena including epidemics\, economies\, innovation\, and the diffusion of ideas. Although human mobility and migration have been heavily constrained by geographic distance throughout the history\, advances\, and globalization are making other factors such as language and culture increasingly more important. Advances in neural embedding models\, originally designed for natural language\, provide an opportunity to tame this complexity and open new avenues for the study of migration. Here\, we demonstrate the ability of the model word2vec to encode nuanced relationships between discrete locations from migration trajectories\, producing an accurate\, dense\, continuous\, and meaningful vector-space representation. The resulting representation provides a functional distance between locations\, as well as a “digital double” that can be distributed\, re-used\, and itself interrogated to understand the many dimensions of migration. We show that the unique power of word2vec to encode migration patterns stems from its mathematical equivalence with the gravity model of mobility. Focusing on the case of scientific migration\, we apply word2vec to a database of three million migration trajectories of scientists derived from the affiliations listed on their publication records. Using techniques that leverage its semantic structure\, we demonstrate that embeddings can learn the rich structure that underpins scientific migration\, such as cultural\, linguistic\, and prestige relationships at multiple levels of granularity. Our results provide a theoretical foundation and methodological framework for using neural embeddings to represent and understand migration both within and beyond science. About the Speaker:  Dakota Murray is a research assistant professor at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern Univeristy. Previously\, he worked as a Data Scientist with Digital Science to develop tools and deliver analysis to support decision making in funding agencies. He was also a postdoctoral research associate working at the Center for Complex Network Research with Albert-László Barabási. He received a Ph.D in Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington.   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-embedding-scientific-migrations/ LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER W-102\, HKS / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T123000 DTSTAMP:20250910T003701Z CREATED:20240215T211000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003701Z UID:15010-1709204400-1709209800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Economic Complexity\, Regional Development\, and Smart Diversification: Evidence from Brazil 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.Speakers: João Romero and Gustavo Britto\, Professors at the Department of Economics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)   Location: HYBRID L-324 FAINSOD\, HKS / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.Paper Abstract.Following the increasing upsurge in the works that use economic complexity indicators (ECI) to devise smart diversification strategies\, this paper proposes a new method – Smart Diversification Score (SDS) – to be used by policymakers to rank promising activities for short\, medium and long-term diversification. After reporting the positive impact of regional complexity\, calculated using employment data\, on employment and GDP per capita growth for Brazilian regions\, the paper assesses the potential of SDS to increase ECI in the municipal level. Looking backwards (to data from 2007 and 2018)\, the paper finds that SDS can predict up to 39.4% of the diversification activities that happened in 1033 Brazilian cities that have increased their complexity. Looking forward\, the paper calculates the SDS for the city of Belo Horizonte\, suggesting a balanced portfolio of related and unrelated activities for diversification and estimates the potential gains to be obtained following different development paths. The main contribution of this paper is to conceive of a new method\, test its validity in the municipal level and exemplify its use for policy purposes. Gustavo Britto is a full-time professor at the Department of Economics\, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Awarded a PhD degree in Regional Growth\, Land Economy Department from the University of Cambridge in 2008. Vice-Director at the Center for Development and Regional Planning (Cedeplar-UFMG) (2018-2023)\, Editor of Nova Economia Journal (2018-2023)\, and a member of the board of Graduate Studies of the Postgraduate Programme in Economics at Cedeplar-UFMG (2014-2023). Researcher at the Center for Development and Regional Planning (Cedeplar). His main investigation theme is the multidimensional relationship between structural change and economic development over time and across the territory. Research results can be found in journals such as the Cambridge Journal of Economics\, Metroeconomica\, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics\, Scientometrics\, Journal of Cleaner Production\, Journal Post Keynesian Economics\, Journal of Political Economy\, PSL Quarterly Review\, and Cepal Review\, among others. General Coordinator of the DataViva project. Currently working as a visiting scholar at SOAS (University of London). João Romero is a full-time professor at the Department of Economics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Cambridge (2015)\, his PhD thesis was awarded the BRICS Economic Research Award in 2016\, promoted by the Exim Bank of India. He was also twice winner of the Brazilian National Confederation of Industry Award\, in 2009 and 2015. He was Assistant Editor of Nova Economia Journal between 2018 and 2023. He is currently the coordinator of the International Economic Relations undergraduate course at UFMG. He is a member of the Cambridge Center for Economic and Public Policy (CCEPP)\, coordinator of the Research Group on Public Policies and Development (GPPD)\, at the Center for Regional Development and Planning (Cedeplar)\, and Research Coordinator of the DataViva project. His research is focused on the areas of economic complexity\, regional development\, international trade\, and economic growth. He has published in journals such as World Development\, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics\, Cambridge Journal of Economics\, Metroeconomica\, Journal of Political Economy and Cepal Review\, among others. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-economic-complexity-regional-development-and-smart-diversification-evidence-from-brazil/ LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER W-102\, HKS / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T123000 DTSTAMP:20250910T003933Z CREATED:20240208T015500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003933Z UID:15024-1709722800-1709728200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Modelling Technological Change in the Energy Transition 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: Bessie Noll\, Doctoral Researcher at ETH Zürich In this seminar\, Bessie  will walk through the motivation\, methods\, and results of  her research as well expand on the question of why certain technologies learn faster than others using innovation and technology complexity theory as explanatory factors. The presentation will conclude with thoughts on how this work may impact or inform larger climate models.  Location: HYBRID W-434 A.B. HKS (Harvard Community) / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. About the Speaker: Bessie Noll is a Postdoctoral researcher with the Energy and Technology Policy Group (EPG) at ETH Zürich. In September 2023\, she successfully defended her PhD\, presenting a dissertation that aims to enhance our comprehension of how public policy can accelerate transformative change in the road transport sector towards low-carbon technologies. In particular\, the thesis argues that policymakers need up-to-date\, quantitative\, approaches to evaluate and project dynamic technology competition and to assess prospective policy impacts on the transition. Her current research explores two distinct areas. The first focuses on improving the representation of technological innovation in Integrated Assessment Models\, looking specifically at technology complexity to understand why some technologies learn faster than others. The second focuses on the low-carbon transport transition in Africa\, assessing the role of battery electric versus synthetic fuel vehicles as options for decarbonizing passenger transport.  Paper: The effects of local interventions on global technological change through spillovers: A modeling framework and application to the road- freight sector Abstract To address global sustainability challenges\, (public) policy interventions are needed to induce or accelerate technological change. While most policy interventions occur on the local level\, their innovation effects can spill over to other jurisdictions\, potentially having global impact. These spillovers can increase or reduce the incentive for interventions. Lacking to date are computational models that capture these spillover dynamics. In this study\, we devise a conceptual and methodological approach to quantify ex ante the effects of local demand-side interventions on global competition between incumbent and novel technologies. We apply these frameworks to the case of commercial road-freight\, assessing global spillover effects due to different demand-pull interventions and shocks.  The presentation will walk through the motivation\, methods\, and results of this study\, and as well expand on the question of why certain technologies learn faster than others using innovation and technology complexity theory as explanatory factors. The presentation will conclude with thoughts on how this work may impact or inform larger climate models.    URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-modelling-technological-change-in-the-energy-transition/ CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T113000 DTSTAMP:20250916T175436Z CREATED:20240312T180600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175436Z UID:15003-1710928800-1710934200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Contracting Frictions\, Geography\, and Multinational Firms: Evidence from Mexico 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: Luis M. Espinoza Bardales\, Ph.D. candidate in Economics from University of Michigan Location: Online only. Please register in advance.Abstract: This paper explores how contracting frictions and geography influence the trade costs faced by multinationals’ affiliates located in Mexico relative to domestic firms. Luis documents two key facts. First\, distance to firm’s home countries influences firms’ sourcing patterns. Second\, sectors with a larger presence of foreign affiliates are more intensive in relationship-specific inputs. He develops a small open economy model with multiple sectors\, imperfect contracting\, input relationship-specificity\, global sourcing and multinational production. Luis computes a set of counterfactual equilibria to gauge the relative importance of contracting frictions\, trade costs\, and productivity in the price advantage of multinationals over domestic firms. He finds small median differences between foreign and domestic firms regarding inward trade and contracting costs\, with high variability across industries and home countries. \nAbout the Speaker: Luis Espinoza is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics from University of Michigan. He is also a former Growth Lab Fellow (2014-2016) and holds a MPAID (2014) degree from HKS. He will be joining the International Affairs faculty at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M this Fall. Luis’ research interest lies at the intersection of trade and development. His research focuses on economic development from a sectorial/macro perspective\, with an eye on potential lessons for policy. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-contracting-frictions-geography-and-multinational-firms-evidence-from-mexico/ LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T113000 DTSTAMP:20250910T004012Z CREATED:20240318T235200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004012Z UID:15029-1711533600-1711539000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Property Rights and Innovation Dynamism: The Role of Women Inventors 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: Ruveyda Gozen\, Ph.D. – London School of Economics. Location: Online only. Please register in advance. Paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K5C4dMtp1toJ7AKAHnORAEZYgX5q84I5/view Abstract: How do stronger property rights for disadvantaged groups affect innovation? Dr. Ruveyda Gozen investigates the impact of strengthened property rights for women on U.S. innovation by analyzing the Married Women’s Property Acts\, which granted equal property rights to women starting in 1845 in New York State. She examines the universe of granted patents from 1790 until 1901\, exploiting the staggered adoption of the laws over time across states. The strengthening of women’s property rights led to a 39% increase in patenting activity among women in the long run\, with effects peaking about a decade after the laws were introduced. Importantly\, women’s innovations were not of lower quality (as measured by a novelty index based on patent text analysis)\, without generating negative effects on innovations by men. Therefore\, these findings suggest that there does not appear to be an equity and efficiency trade-off. Finally\, she shows that the main mechanism was through innovation incentives\, and higher human capital accumulation among women inventors rather than an increase in participation in STEM fields\, labor force participation\, or relieving financial frictions. Speaker Bio: Dr. Ruveyda Gozen is a research economist at the London School of Economics (LSE) at the Programme of Innovation and Diffusion (POID) directed by John Van Reenen. She is an applied microeconomist with a focus on economics of innovation\, growth\, entrepreneurship\, institutions\, inequality\, and technological progress. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-property-rights-and-innovation-dynamism-the-role-of-women-inventors/ LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T113000 DTSTAMP:20250910T004149Z CREATED:20240208T020000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004149Z UID:15038-1712138400-1712143800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: The Economic Impact of Transport Infrastructure: A Review of Project-level vs. Aggregate-level Meta-Evidence 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: Timo Välilä\, Honorary Professor\, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction\, UCL Location: HYBRID: WEXNER W-434 A.B. / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Abstract. This article undertakes a comparison of quantitative meta-studies at project level and at aggregate level to assess how well the economic impact of transport infrastructure is understood. Project-level analyses\, based on the so-called Flyvbjerg database\, have documented systematic cost overruns and\, less conclusively\, traffic demand shortfalls\, and they have interpreted these findings as being indicative of negative social welfare consequences of transport infrastructure investment projects. In contrast\, aggregate-level meta-analyses find consistently that there is a positive relationship between transport infrastructure and measured economic activity at the level of regions or countries\, especially in the long run and at higher levels of geographical aggregation. This seeming tension between the meta-results at different levels has been considered a paradox. However\, neither the project-level meta-results\, nor the available ex post evaluations of larger samples of transport infrastructure projects provide any conclusive evidence of their social welfare consequences\, and even if they did\, changes in social welfare and economic activity do not need to point in the same direction. There is therefore no paradox about the economic impact of transport infrastructure – we just do not understand its social welfare consequences at the meta-level as well as we understand its relationship with measured aggregate output. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-economic-impact-of-transport-infrastructure-a-review-of-project-level-vs-aggregate-level-meta-evidence/ LOCATION:WEXNER W-434 A.B. / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T113000 DTSTAMP:20250910T003908Z CREATED:20240405T233600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003908Z UID:15020-1712743200-1712748600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Labor Markets & Green Industrial 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: Christophe Combemale\, Assistant Research Professor\, Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon UniversityLocation: WEXNER W-434 A.B. (Harvard Community) / Zoom Whether attending in person or online please register in advance.  About the Speakers:  Christophe Combemale’s research focuses on the implications of technology choices and process design for skill demand\, and on workforce supply chain levers to meet industry skill demand needs. He is interested in how regional and national labor supply may constrain economic productivity and innovation\, and solutions that enhance outcomes for workers and firms.  He co-leads the Workforce Supply Chains Initiative at the Block Center for Technology and Society. Last year\, he was the workforce research lead for an NSF-funded pilot program seeking to develop a National Network for Critical Technology Assessment. The program developed assessment capabilities for critical technologies for U.S. competitiveness\, to offer insights to U.S. legislators and other policy stakeholders. Combemale is also the CEO of Valdos Consulting\, a firm specializing in techno-economic modeling to support market\, technology\, and workforce strategy. Combemale and team currently apply these domains on behalf of federal\, academic and private clients in health and human services\, technology services as well as advanced manufacturing including semiconductors\, robotics\, electric vehicles\, and defense industrial applications.      URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-labor-markets-green-industrial-policy/ LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER W-434 AB\, HKS / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T160000 DTSTAMP:20250910T003225Z CREATED:20240422T143600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003225Z UID:14986-1714055400-1714060800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Extraversion and Development: The Logic of Industrial Policy in Post-Liberation Africa 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: Nicolas Lippolis\, Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia Climate SchoolLocation: R414-B / ZoomWhether attending in person or online please register in advance.Speaker Bio: Nicolas obtained his doctorate (DPhil) in Politics from the University of Oxford. Prior to the doctorate\, Nicolas earned an MSc in Economics for Development and a BA in Philosophy\, Politics and Economics\, both from Oxford University. He has taught at Oxford\, Sciences Po Paris\, and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has also consulted with the World Bank\, and previously worked in emerging markets macroeconomic research at Goldman Sachs in London. Nicolas is a native of Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-extraversion-and-development-the-logic-of-industrial-policy-in-post-liberation-africa/ LOCATION:R414-B / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240613T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240613T160000 DTSTAMP:20250910T003216Z CREATED:20240514T200700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003216Z UID:14985-1718289000-1718294400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Economic implications of the Inflation Reduction Act: A Dynamic Analysis 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. Speakers:  María C. Latorre\, Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense of MadridDavid Suárez-Cuesta\, Faculty Member at Universidad Complutense of MadridLocation: Wexner-102 / ZoomWhether attending in person or online please register in advance. Abstract: We expand a dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the economic impact of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This approach allows for a comprehensive economic analysis\, considering both macro and microeconomic implications. The IRA encompasses a range of policy measures\, both expansionary and contractionary\, implemented between 2022 and 2031. By employing a combination of tax incentives and reforms\, the IRA leads to a modest overall increase in U.S. GDP\, reaching its peak in the mid-decade. However\, these positive effects are tempered by inflationary pressures\, resulting in reduced export competitiveness\, except in sectors directly affected by the IRA\, such as Motor Vehicles and Electrical Equipment. Additionally\, the tax reforms aimed at financing the IRA primarily target corporations\, leading to a significant contractionary effect on the economy. This results in a slight reduction in employment demand but an increase in real wages. We extend beyond the initial estimations provided by the Congressional Budget Office\, which projected $393 billion in tax credits\, by simulating two additional scenarios: 1) accounting for the uncapped effect of tax credits\, considering that private investment announcements resulting from the IRA already exceed the $393 billion threshold in the first year of implementation; and 2) exploring an alternative funding approach through taxes on workers. About the Speakers: María C. Latorre is Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain) and Member of the Group of Experts in Trade of the European Commission. She is Co-chair of the research groups in Data Science and Global Governance both from Real Colegio Complutense (RCC) at Harvard University and Research Fellow from this institution. She leads the “Una Europa Global Governance Research Group.” David Suárez-Cuesta is a Faculty Member at Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain) and Project Operation Manager of the Global Governance Research Group and Member of the Study Group in Data Science from RCC at Harvard University. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-economic-implications-of-the-inflation-reduction-act-a-dynamic-analysis/ LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER -102 / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T233000 DTSTAMP:20250910T004231Z CREATED:20240612T211500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004231Z UID:15044-1718920800-1718926200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Unveiling the Latent Structures within the Global Science System 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: Lili Miao\, Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University\, School of Informatics\, Computing\, and Engineering Location: W434-B / Zoom Whether attending in person or online please register in advance. Speaker Bio: Lili Miao is a Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University\, School of Informatics\, Computing\, and Engineering. Her research focuses on applying computational methods to understand the interactions among science\, innovation\, and society. Besides publishing in renowned venues\, her research has served as an integral basis for formulating a pilot program—A National Network for Critical Technology Assessment—funded by the NSF and dedicated to informing U.S. national technology policy. She is a recipient of several awards including the Humane Studies Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies and the Best Poster Award at the 1st International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation. Paper Abstract: Science is crucial for innovation and economic prosperity. While numerous studies have investigated the factors influencing national scientific development\, it remains unclear whether universal structures and trajectories exist. Meanwhile\, science is increasingly a global activity\, characterized by the exchange of knowledge\, resources\, and people across national borders. Exchanges\, however\, can often be asymmetrical\, posing risks and costs to global science. Using bibliometric data\, this talk will delve into the underlying structures of national scientific development and examine the impact of global funding and collaboration on national scientific development. The talk will discuss the vicious cycles that hinder the scientific development of developing countries\, the benefits and risks of relying on foreign scientific funding\, and the threats to achieving an equitable global science system. It will conclude with a review of relevant global science policies and recommendations for leveraging large-scale data to formulate and evaluate national and international science policies. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-unveiling-the-latent-structures-within-the-global-science-system/ CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T114500 DTSTAMP:20250910T004156Z CREATED:20240912T000200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004156Z UID:15039-1726655400-1726659900@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: The Emergence and Diffusion of Green Technologies: Firm-level Evidence from Textual Analysis of Patents and Corporate Reports 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: Lucio Castro \, Ph.D. \, The World Bank Location: Perkins Conference Room R-429-B / Zoom Whether attending in person or online please register in advance. Speaker Bio: Lucio Castro is a Senior Economist in the Global Investment Climate Unit of the World Bank Group’s Finance\, Competitiveness\, and Innovation Global Practice. Previously\, he worked at IFC Economic and Market Research and Impact Evaluation Departments. Prior to joining the World Bank Group\, he served in various roles\, including Vice-Minister in the Ministry of Production of Argentina\, Alternate Executive Director at the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB)\, and Director of Economic Development at CIPPEC. He was a visiting scholar and research fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development (CID)\, receiving the Fulbright Nexus Scholarship. He worked as economic advisor in Latin America\, Africa\, Asia\, and the Middle East for the IDB\, European Commission\, DfID\, GDN\, CAF\, and national and sub-national governments. Lucio is also Associated Professor at Universidad Austral and Affiliated Researcher with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) SME Initiative. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex and a Masters from Columbia University. Paper Abstract: We draw on the textual analysis of patents and corporate reports matched with multi-country\, firm-level panel data for the period 2012-2021 to uncover new stylized facts on the emergence and diffusion of green technologies across countries\, sectors\, and firms.  We document a growing importance of green technologies after 2019\, Among initially high-emissions firms\, those that mentioned green technologies tend to observe a decline in carbon emissions in subsequent years. Buyer-supplier relationships and innovation partnerships with these firms\, especially when they had high-emissions intensity\, are systematically linked with the diffusion of green technologies. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-emergence-and-diffusion-of-green-technologies-firm-level-evidence-from-textual-analysis-of-patents-and-corporate-reports/ LOCATION:HYBRID Perkins Conference Room R-429-B / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T234500 DTSTAMP:20250910T003645Z CREATED:20240912T002100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003645Z UID:15008-1727260200-1727307900@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Did the 2022 Global Energy Crisis Accelerate the Diffusion of Low-Carbon Technologies? 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: Jacob Greenspon\, Ph.D. Candidate in the University of Oxford Coauthored with Paulo Bastos\, Katherine Stapleton\, and Daria Taglioni (World Bank) Location: Democracy Lab R-414 AB / Zoom Whether attending in person or online please register in advance. Speaker Bio: Jacob is a doctoral student in Economics at the University of Oxford and Research Coordinator at the Harvard Kennedy School Reimagining the Economy Project. He has consulted on energy transition research at Resources for the Future\, the World Bank\, and the Institute for Research on Public Policy and worked as an economist for several think tanks and governments in the US and Canada. Paper Abstract: This paper develops measures of the diffusion of a comprehensive range of low-carbon technologies in 35 countries from 2019 to 2022 using text analysis of job postings and earnings calls transcripts. It documents a rapid acceleration in the diffusion of low-carbon technologies in 2022–with hiring in related roles doubling from 2019–that is driven by technologies related to renewable energy\, vehicles\, thermal performance\, and electrical generation and storage. Rapid growth occurred in three quarters of the countries studied and 228 of 300 subnational regions\, although was fastest in Europe. It studies the role of the global energy crisis in triggering this accelerated technology diffusion\, focusing on 16 advanced economies. It finds that establishments in countries that had a higher pre-crisis dependence on imports of natural gas\, and were thus more exposed to the price shock\, differentially increased hiring for low-carbon technology related roles from March 2022 onwards. Within more exposed countries\, establishments with a higher pre-crisis energy intensity also saw a differential increase in hiring relative to less energy intensive ones. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-did-the-2022-global-energy-crisis-accelerate-the-diffusion-of-low-carbon-technologies/ LOCATION:HYBRID Democracy Lab R 414-AB / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars,Growth Lab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T114500 DTSTAMP:20250910T003330Z CREATED:20241003T184600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003330Z UID:14993-1728469800-1728474300@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Workers and the Green-Energy Transition: Evidence from 300 million Job Transitions 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: Mark Curtis\, Ph.D.\, Reynolds Professor of Economics and Associate Professor at Wake Forest University Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Paper Abstract (Mark Curtis\, Layla O’Kane and Jisung Park): Using microdata representing more than 130 million online work profiles\, we explore transitions into and out of jobs most likely to be affected by a transition away from carbon-intensive production technologies. Exploiting detailed textual data on job title\, firm name\, occupation\, and industry to focus on workers employed in carbon-intensive (“dirty”) and non–carbon-intensive (“green”) jobs\, we find that the rate of transition from dirty to green jobs is rising rapidly\, increasing 10-fold over the period 2005–21\, including a significant uptick in electric vehicle–related jobs in recent years. Overall\, however\, less than 1% of all workers who leave a dirty job appear to make the transition to a green job. We find that the persistence of employment within dirty industries varies enormously across local labor markets; in some states\, more than half of all transitions out of dirty jobs are into other dirty jobs. Older workers and those without a college education appear less likely to make transitions to green jobs and more likely to other dirty jobs\, other jobs\, or nonemployment. When accounting for the fact that green jobs tend to have later start dates\, it appears that green and dirty jobs have roughly comparable job durations. About the Speaker: E. Mark Curtis is the Reynolds Professor of Economics and associate professor at Wake Forest University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Georgia State University\, his M.A. in economics from Duke University\, and his B.A. from Furman University. His primary fields of research are environmental\, public\, and labor economics with a particular focus on program evaluation\, taxes\, and environmental policy. His research has been widely published and seeks to understand the implications of public policies for firms and workers. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-workers-and-the-green-energy-transition-evidence-from-300-million-job-transitions/ LOCATION:HYBRID – Zoom / The Perkins Room\, Rubenstein 429 at HKS CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241016T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241016T114500 DTSTAMP:20250910T003322Z CREATED:20241003T195300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003322Z UID:14992-1729074600-1729079100@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Using Trademarks to Measure Innovation and Capabilities: Opportunities and Challenges 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: Carolina Castaldi\, Ph.D.\, Professor in Geography of Innovation at Utrecht University In this talk\, Prof. Castaldi will review an emerging strand of empirical research using trademarks as data to measure innovation and capabilities. After discussing the specific properties of trademark data\, she will show how they are both complementary and substitutes to patent data in their potential for measuring innovation and capabilities\, at different levels of analysis\, including firms\, regions and countries. Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-using-trademarks-to-measure-innovation-and-capabilities-opportunities-and-challenges/ LOCATION:Zoom / The Perkins Room\, Rubenstein 429 at HKS CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T114500 DTSTAMP:20250910T003305Z CREATED:20241018T200500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003305Z UID:14990-1729679400-1729683900@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - The Effects of Transport Infrastructure on Housing Supply: The Role of Land-Use Regulation 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: Kenzo Asahi\, Assistant Professor\, School of Government Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Abstract: We study the impact of new transportation infrastructure on housing supply using historical and microdata from Santiago and exploiting instrumental variables. We find that subway and highway expansions increase residential floor space substantially\, but when we account for land-use regulation\, we see two contrasting dynamics in the city. In the wealthiest quintile\, the effect is negligible for more than 95% of the blocks due to their initial stringent regulation. However\, in blocks in the first four quintiles of wealth\, the impact on housing supply is substantial and homogeneous concerning the initial regulation. We provide evidence that the transport infrastructure triggers regulation to become more permissive everywhere but in the wealthiest neighborhoods. We quantify how land-use regulation limits housing supply\, thus restraining welfare gains from transport infrastructure improvements. Speaker Bio: Kenzo Asahi is an Assistant Professor at the School of Government. His research focus is on the intersection of urban economics and labor economics. His research explores the effect of physical and human space on the human and economic development of city dwellers. He holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)\, a Master in Research (MRes) in Economics from University College London\, a Master of Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from Harvard University\, a Master of Science in Engineering from UC\, and a civil engineer from UC. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-effects-of-transport-infrastructure-on-housing-supply-the-role-of-land-use-regulation/ LOCATION:HYBRID Perkins Rubenstein 429 / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T114500 DTSTAMP:20250910T003208Z CREATED:20241021T185400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003208Z UID:14984-1730284200-1730288700@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Beyond the Census: Understanding Urban Social Resilience Through Behavioral Mobility Data 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: Esteban Moro\, Ph.D.\, Network Science Institute at Northeastern University Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Abstract: In urban studies\, traditional census data provides a static snapshot of cities\, often missing the dynamic\, real-time interactions that shape urban life and underpin the resilience of our communities. In this talk\, I will present our recent research on understanding the dynamics of our cities by analyzing massive behavioral mobility data from mobile phones\, credit cards\, or social media and its relationship with networked inequalities\, such as experienced segregation\, access to healthy food\, adaptation to the recent pandemic\, and public transportation interventions. I will also discuss the methodological challenges and opportunities of using these datasets for population-wide analysis\, from managing potential biases to designing better causal analysis. Finally\, I will comment on potential data-driven interventions to reinforce the social fabric in cities and mitigate the detrimental impacts of networked inequalities. Speaker Bio: Esteban Moro is a full professor and director of the Social Urban Networks (SUN) group at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University and affiliated faculty at the MIT Media Lab. He was previously a professor and researcher at the Department of Mathematics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid\, the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center at MIT\, and the University of Oxford. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics. Esteban’s work lies in the intersection of big data and computational social science\, with particular attention to human dynamics\, collective intelligence\, social networks\, and urban mobility in problems like viral marketing\, natural disaster management\, or economic segregation in cities. He has received numerous awards for his research\, and his work has appeared in major journals and is regularly covered by media outlets. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-beyond-the-census-understanding-urban-social-resilience-through-behavioral-mobility-data/ LOCATION:HYBRID Perkins Rubenstein 429 / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241106T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241106T124500 DTSTAMP:20250910T003237Z CREATED:20241021T220000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003237Z UID:14987-1730892600-1730897100@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Forecasting Macroeconomic Dynamics Using a Calibrated Data-Driven Agent-Based Model 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: Samuel Wiese\, University of Oxford Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Abstract: In the last few years\, economic agent-based models have made the transition from qualitative models calibrated to match stylised facts to quantitative models for time series forecasting\, and in some cases\, their predictions have performed as well or better than those of standard models (see\, e.g. Poledna et al. (2023a); Hommes et al. (2022); Pichler et al. (2022)). Here\, we build on the model of Poledna et al.\, adding several new features such as housing markets\, realistic synthetic populations of individuals with income\, wealth and consumption heterogeneity\, enhanced behavioural rules and market mechanisms\, and an enhanced credit market. We calibrate our model for all 38 OECD member countries using state-of-the-art approximate Bayesian inference methods and test it by making out-of-sample forecasts. It outperforms both the Poledna and AR(1) time series models by a highly statistically significant margin. Our model for all 38 OECD member countries using state-of-the-art approximate Bayesian inference methods and test it by making out-of-sample forecasts. It outperforms both the Poledna and AR(1) time series models by a highly statistically significant margin. Our model is built within a platform we have developed\, making it easy to build\, run\, and evaluate alternative models\, which we hope will encourage future work in this area. Speaker Bio: Samuel Wiese is a graduate student at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a member of the Complexity Economics group at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). Before starting his PhD\, he completed a Diploma in Mathematics at the University of Leipzig and worked as a research assistant at Cornell University and at the Chebyshev Laboratory at St. Petersburg State University. He is interested in learning on random games and macroeconomic agent-based modelling. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-forecasting-macroeconomic-dynamics-using-a-calibrated-data-driven-agent-based-model/ LOCATION:HYBRID Perkins Rubenstein 429 / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241113T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241113T124500 DTSTAMP:20250910T003257Z CREATED:20241021T221100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003257Z UID:14989-1731497400-1731501900@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Procuring Low Growth: The Impact of Political Favoritism on Public Procurement and Firm Performance in Bulgaria 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: Mihaly Fazekas. Associate Professor\, Central European University Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Authors: Mihaly Fazekas\, Viktoriia Poltoratskaya\, Marc Schiffbauer\, and Bence Tóth Paper Abstract: This paper assesses the impact of favoritism in public procurement on private sector productivity growth. To this end\, it combines three novel microeconomic datasets: administrative data on firms including over 4 million firm-year observations and rich financial and ownership information\, public procurement transactions data for 150\,000 published contracts and their tenders\, and a newly assembled dataset on firms’ political connections drawing on asset declarations\, sanction lists\, and offshore leaks. This comprehensive dataset allows us to trace the impact of favoritism in allocating government contracts to economic growth. Specifically\, we find that politically connected firms are 18-32 percent more likely to win public procurement contracts due to their preferential access to uncompetitive tenders. Public procurement results in higher subsequent productivity and employment growth only if it has been awarded through competitive tenders. Firms winning contracts through uncompetitive procedures have flat growth but make higher profit margins. Consistent with these findings\, we show that firms awarded uncompetitive public procurement contracts obtain rents from overpaid contracts\, by 9-11 percent. The results suggest that aggregate annual TFP growth would have been 8 percent higher in the absence of favoritism in public procurement. Speaker Bio: Mihaly Fazekas is an associate professor at the Central European University\, Department of Public Policy\, with a focus on using data science methods to understand the quality of government globally. He is also the scientific director of an innovative think-tank\, the Government Transparency Institute. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge where he pioneered data science methods to measure and understand high-level corruption in Central- and Eastern Europe. His research and policy interests revolve around corruption\, favouritism\, private sector collusion\, and government spending efficiency. Methodologically\, he has experience in both quantitative and qualitative methods in diverse fields such as public policy\, data science\, and political science. He worked at the University of Cambridge as the scientific coordinator of the Horizon 2020 funded project DIGIWHIST which used data science approaches to measuring corruption risks\, administrative capacity\, and transparency in public procurement in 33 European countries. His articles appeared in diverse\, high-quality journals such as the American Journal of Political Science\, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory\, Governance\, Regional Studies\, World Development\, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice\, the Lancet\, or International Journal of Data Science and Analytics. His policy reports have been published by prestigious organisations such as the World Bank\, the OECD\, or the European Commission. He regularly consults the European Commission\, United Nations\, OECD\, World Bank\, and a range of national governments and NGOs across the globe. In 2020\, he has won the IMF’s Anti-Corruption Challenge leading an interdisciplinary team from across government and academia. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-procuring-low-growth-the-impact-of-political-favoritism-on-public-procurement-and-firm-performance-in-bulgaria/ LOCATION:HYBRID Perkins Rubenstein 429 / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241120T233000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241120T233000 DTSTAMP:20250910T004624Z CREATED:20241114T001700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004624Z UID:15071-1732145400-1732145400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:The Social and Environmental Consequences of the Twin Energy-Digital Transition 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: Aurélien Saussay\, Assistant Professorial Research Fellow\, Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Abstract: We analyze the labor market and environmental impacts of the concurrent diffusion of green and automation technologies using a novel dataset linking patent data to establishment-level job postings from 2010 to 2023. We develop a new measure of establishment-level technology adoption by constructing semantic similarity links between patent content and skill requirements in online job advertisements. We contribute three novel findings. First\, we document substantial heterogeneity in the labor market impacts across green technology types: innovations in green ICT and buildings technologies appear labor-augmenting\, while advances in green transportation and smart grids tend to be labor-saving. Over time\, green innovation as a whole has become increasingly labor-saving. Second\, using a shift-share instrumental variable (SSIV) empirical design\, we find that increased green technology adoption leads to job creations\, which are moderately skill-biased. Finally\, despite potential concerns\, we find no evidence that automation technology adoption weakens emissions reductions at the establishment level. Our results suggest that the twin green-digital transition may support both employment and environmental goals. Speaker bio: Aurélien Saussay is an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow in the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. He currently holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2022-2025). He will be visiting Harvard Kennedy School in the Fall Semester 2024. His research focuses on the interaction between economic inequality and climate change mitigation policies\, in order to address the social and political acceptance challenges that hamper the implementation of effective decarbonisation. He aims to estimate the impacts of climate change mitigation on economic agents empirically to help improve the design of decarbonization policies. He was previously an economist at OFCE\, Sciences Po\, where he led the environmental economics team. He remains an associate researcher and is one of the main co-authors of the Multi-sector Macroeconomic Model for the Evaluation of Environmental and Energy policies (ThreeME)\, which is used extensively in France\, the Netherlands\, Mexico and Indonesia to assess the economic consequences of energy transition scenarios.     URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/the-social-and-environmental-consequences-of-the-twin-energy-digital-transition/ LOCATION:HYBRID – Zoom / Perkins\, Rubenstein 429 at HKS CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T124500 DTSTAMP:20250916T175437Z CREATED:20250128T224100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175437Z UID:14988-1738755000-1738759500@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - From Labor to Intermediates: Firm Growth\, Input Substitution\, and Monopsony 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: Matthias Mertens\, postdoctoral associate at MIT FutureTech Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Paper Abstract: (Matthias Mertens with Benjamin Schoefer from UC Berkeley) We document and dissect a new stylized fact about firm growth: the shift from labor to intermediate inputs. This shift occurs in input quantities\, cost and output shares\, and output elasticities. We establish this regularity in firm data for Germany and in firm (and industry) data for 11 (21) additional countries. We explain this regularity through a parsimonious model featuring an elasticity of substitution between intermediates and labor above one\, and an increasing shadow price of labor (monopsony or adjustment costs). Labor-intermediates substitution also accounts for much of the labor share decline that we document accompanies firm and industry growth. \nAbout the Speaker: Matthias is a postdoctoral associate at MIT FutureTech. His primary focus includes analyzing firm productivity\, production technologies\, and market power. He completed his Ph.D. at the Halle Institute for Economic Research in collaboration with the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg. Prior to joining MIT\, Matthias led the Research Group at the Halle Institute for Economic Research and coordinated the Scientific Team at the Competitiveness Research Network\, where he oversaw the data collection team responsible for constructing the CompNet database for several years. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-from-labor-to-intermediates-firm-growth-input-substitution-and-monopsony/ LOCATION:HYBRID Perkins Rubenstein 429 / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars,Growth Lab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250226T233000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T004500 DTSTAMP:20250910T004217Z CREATED:20250219T224500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004217Z UID:15042-1740612600-1740617100@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Trade\, Innovation and Optimal Patent Protection 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: Thomas Sampson\, Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.  Paper Abstract: Intellectual property rights are a recurrent source of tensions between developed and developing economies. This paper provides the first quantitative analysis of optimal patent policy in trading economies. We develop a new model of trade\, growth and patenting in which patent protection affects both innovation and market power. The model is estimated using data on patent applications to calibrate patent protection by country and the geography of innovation. Counterfactual analysis yields three main results. First\, the potential gains from international cooperation over patent policies are large. However\, achieving these gains requires more innovative economies to offer stronger protection. Second\, only a small share of these gains has been realized so far. And third\, by pushing towards policy harmonization\, the TRIPS agreement hurts developing countries without generating global welfare gains. Overall\, there is substantial scope for policy reforms to increase efficiency. Link to the paper: https://personal.lse.ac.uk/sampsont/TradePatents.pdf   About the Speaker: Thomas Sampson is an Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics\, where he has taught since 2011. He earned his PhD from Harvard University\, focusing on international trade and labor. Prior to his current role\, he served as a consultant for organizations such as the Bank of England\, the World Bank\, and the Bank of Papua New Guinea. His research explores questions at the intersection of trade policy\, economic growth\, and innovation\, including the impact of Brexit on the UK economy. Thomas is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and an Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-trade-innovation-and-optimal-patent-protection/ LOCATION:HYBRID Perkins Rubenstein 429 / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T124500 DTSTAMP:20250916T175437Z CREATED:20250227T181600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175437Z UID:14982-1741174200-1741178700@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - AI-generated Production Networks: Measurement and Applications to Global Trade 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: Thiemo Fetzer\, Professor of Economics at Warwick University and at the University of Bonn This is an online only event. Please register in advance. Paper Abstract: This paper leverages generative AI to build a network structure over 5\,000 product nodes\, where directed edges represent input-output relationships in production. We layout a two-step ‘build-prune’ approach using an ensemble of prompt-tuned generative AI classifications. The ’build’ step provides an initial distribution of edge-predictions\, the ‘prune’ step then re-evaluates all edges. With our AI-generated Production Network (AIPNET) in toe\, we document a host of shifts in the network position of products and countries during the 21st century. Finally\, we study production network spillovers using the natural experiment presented by the 2017 blockade of Qatar. We find strong evidence of such spillovers\, suggestive of on-shoring of critical production. This descriptive and causal evidence demonstrates some of the many research possibilities opened up by our granular measurement of product linkages\, including studies of on-shoring\, industrial policy\, and other recent shifts in global trade. \nAbout the Speaker: Thiemo Fetzer is Professor of Economics at Warwick University and at the University of Bonn. Thiemo is also an Academic Visitor at the Bank of England\, an Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a Fellow at the British National Institute for Social and Economic Research (NIESR). His work cross cuts many fields in economics ranging from international trade\, economic development\, finance\, to spatial economics and political economy leveraging frontier techniques from machine learning\, artificial intelligence and computer science. Thiemo has advised a range of players and policy makers in some G20 countries on issues around economic development and industrial policy\, with a special focus on the economic\, social and institutional and political-economic adjustments that are necessary to counter the climate crisis and help shift societies out of the non-cooperative loose-loose equilibria. His research has been featured in national and international media such as Bloomberg\, New York Times\, The Guardian\, Financial Times\, Le Monde\, El País\, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-ai-generated-production-networks-measurement-and-applications-to-global-trade/ LOCATION:Online Only CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T114500 DTSTAMP:20250910T003629Z CREATED:20250306T235400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003629Z UID:15006-1741775400-1741779900@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Demand & Supply Side Linkages in Exporting Multiproduct Firms 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: Lisandra Flach\, Professor of Economics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) and Director of the ifo Center for International Economics Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Abstract: Products produced by a multiproduct firm can be linked through demand linkages or supply linkages. On the demand side\, changes in the price of one product can affect the demand for a firm’s other products through shifts in consumer expenditures. This is commonly referred to as the cannibalization effect. On the supply side\, joint inputs can create a dependency of one product’s marginal costs on the output of other products. The existence of these linkages is important for how firms respond to shocks and has major implications for several performance measures\, such as productivity and markups. This paper provides the first empirical evidence for the existence of cannibalization linkages in the presence of supply linkages\, which is implied evidence for market power. Link to the paper: https://cepr.org/publications/dp18627 Bio: Lisandra Flach is a Professor of Economics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) and Director of the ifo Center for International Economics. Her research focuses on international trade\, firm dynamics\, and global value chains\, with a particular interest in the effects of trade policy. She is a Research Fellow at CESifo\, a Research Affiliate at CEPR\, and serves as an Associate Editor for leading economic journals. Her work has been widely recognized\, earning her awards such as the “Top 40 under 40” and “Germany’s 10 Most Promising Young Economists.” URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-demand-supply-side-linkages-in-exporting-multiproduct-firms/ LOCATION:HYBRID Perkins Rubenstein 429 / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T114500 DTSTAMP:20250910T003314Z CREATED:20250325T052800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003314Z UID:14991-1742985000-1742989500@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Urban-Biased Growth: A Macroeconomic Analysis 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: Fabian Eckert is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California\, San Diego Please register in advance. Abstract: After 1980\, larger US cities experienced substantially faster wage growth than smaller ones. We show that this urban bias mainly reflected wage growth at large Business Services firms. These firms stand out through their high per-worker expenditure on information technology and disproportionate presence in big cities. We introduce a spatial model of investment-specific technical change that can rationalize these patterns. Using the model as an accounting framework\, we find that the observed decline in the investment price of information technology capital explains most urban-biased growth by raising the profits of large Business Services firms in big cities. Link to the paper: https://fpeckert.me/papers/ubg.pdf Bio: Fabian Eckert is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California\, San Diego\, specializing in spatial economics\, macroeconomics\, international economics\, and urban economics. His research explores how geography\, urban development\, and economic policy shape inequality and growth. He serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of International Economics and is a partner at UCSD’s Prosperity and Globalization Lab. Fabian holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-urban-biased-growth-a-macroeconomic-analysis/ LOCATION:Online Only CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T150000 DTSTAMP:20250903T201000Z CREATED:20250401T190500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250903T201000Z UID:15046-1744207200-1744210800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Which Economic Tasks are Performed with AI? Evidence from Millions of Claude Conversations 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. \n\n\n\nThis is an online only event. Please register in advance. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Kunal Handa\, Research Scientist at Anthropic \n\n\n\nPaper Abstract: Despite widespread speculation about artificial intelligence’s impact on the future of work\, we lack systematic empirical evidence about how these systems are actually being used for different tasks. Here\, we present a novel framework for measuring AI usage patterns across the economy. We leverage a recent privacy-preserving system to analyze over four million this http URL conversations through the lens of tasks and occupations in the U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET Database. Our analysis reveals that AI usage primarily concentrates in software development and writing tasks\, which together account for nearly half of all total usage. However\, usage of AI extends more broadly across the economy\, with approximately 36% of occupations using AI for at least a quarter of their associated tasks. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Kunal Handa is a Research Scientist at Anthropic where he focuses on understanding and improving the societal impact of AI systems. His research explores the fundamentals of learning in both humans and machines\, particularly how to build collaborative AI tools grounded in human communication principles. Previously\, Kunal was a graduate student at the University of Oxford and an undergraduate student at Brown University studying linguistics and computer science. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-which-economic-tasks-are-performed-with-ai-evidence-from-millions-of-claude-conversations/ LOCATION:Online Only CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251007T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251007T113000 DTSTAMP:20251007T211107Z CREATED:20251006T183900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251007T211107Z UID:16783-1759831200-1759836600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Job Transformation\, Specialization\, and the Labor Market Effects of AI DESCRIPTION:Academic Research Seminars Hybrid\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Lukas Freund\, Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston College \n\n\n\nWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is permitted for the Harvard community. The Zoom session is open to the public. \n\n\n\nAbstract: Who will gain and who will lose as AI automates tasks? While much of the discourse focuses on job displacement\, we show that job transformation—a shift in the task content of jobs—creates large and heterogeneous earnings effects. We develop a quantitative\, task-based model where occupations bundle multiple tasks and workers with heterogeneous portfolios of task-specific skills select into occupations by comparative advantage. Automation shifts the relative importance of tasks within each occupation\, inducing wage effects that we characterize analytically. To quantify these effects\, we measure the task content of jobs using natural language processing and estimate the distribution of task-specific skills. We construct projections of automation effects due to large language models (LLMs)\, exploiting a mapping between model tasks and automation exposure measures. Within highly exposed occupations\, like office and administrative roles\, workers specialized in information-processing tasks leave and suffer wage losses. By contrast\, those specialized in customer-facing and coordination tasks stay and experience wage gains as work rebalances toward their strengths. Our findings challenge the common assumption that automation exposure equates to wage losses; and highlight that AI\, through job transformation\, may be disruptive even absent job displacement.   \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker: Lukas Freund is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston College. His research focuses on macroeconomics\, technological change\, and labor markets. Before joining Boston College\, Lukas was a postdoctoral scholar at Columbia University. He obtained his PhD at Cambridge University\, as a Gates Scholar\, and his undergraduate degree from Oxford University. He also held visiting positions at the OECD\, Bank of England\, and Deutsche Bundesbank.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n Share URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/job-transformation-specialization-and-the-labor-market-effects-of-ai/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R429) – Rubenstein 4th Floor CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars,Hybrid END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T113000 DTSTAMP:20251016T204410Z CREATED:20251016T170043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T204410Z UID:16872-1761041700-1761046200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Real Effects of Academic Research Revisited DESCRIPTION:Academic Research Seminars Hybrid\n\n\nThe 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 \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Adam Jaffe\, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Brandeis University\, Chair of the National Academies Board on Science\, Technology\, and Economic Policy \n\n\n\nWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is permitted for the Harvard community. The Zoom session is open to the public. \n\n\n\nAbstract: This Chapter surveys the findings of social science research on the contribution of universities to innovation and economic growth\, both locally/regionally and globally. In the last several decades research has demonstrated universities’ causal effects through the mechanisms of knowledge creation\, education and training of students and technology transfer/entrepreneurship. \n\n\n\nThe Chapter summarizes how the literature has studied these mechanisms in different disciplines and industrial sectors. The depth and breadth of understanding have been advanced by new microdata and new methods of linking data across inventions\, scientists and institutions\, and by application of methods from network science. These findings have implications for public policy to foster innovation both regionally and globally. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Adam Jaffe is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Brandeis University and chair of the National Academies Board on Science\, Technology\, and Economic Policy. At Brandeis\, he served as Chair of Economics and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He was previously Co-Chair of The OECD Global Science Forum Experts’ Group on “Effective Operation of Competitive Research Funding Systems\,” and was the founding Coordinator of the National Bureau of Economic Research Innovation Information Initiative (“I3”). Jaffe is currently an Editor for Research Policy. He is the co-author of two books\, Innovation and its Discontents and Patents\, citations\, and innovations: A window on the knowledge economy. He holds an S.B. in chemistry and S.M. in technology and policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n Share URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-real-effects-of-academic-research-revisited/ LOCATION:HYBRID Perkins Rubenstein 429 / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars,Hybrid ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/jaffe-adam.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T113000 DTSTAMP:20251102T203423Z CREATED:20251028T165113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251102T203423Z UID:17034-1762251300-1762255800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Industrial Policy: Managing Trade-Offs to Promote Growth and Resilience DESCRIPTION:Academic Research Seminars Hybrid\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\nCountries increasingly seek to reshape their economies by targeting public support to specific firms and sectors. Their motives vary widely but often include an emphasis on developing strategic industries\, with a view to raising future productivity and growth\, and reducing reliance on imports in key sectors such as energy. Sebastian Wende\, an economist in the Economic Modeling team of the International Monetary Fund’s Research Department\, will discuss new research that leverages theoretical models\, empirical data\, and case studies to investigate the conditions under which such industrial policies are most likely to succeed.  \n\n\n\nWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is permitted for the Harvard community. The Zoom session is open to the public. \n\n\n\nAbstract: Countries are increasingly using industrial policy to reshape their economies by supporting strategic sectors and firms. Motivations include boosting productivity\, reducing reliance on imports—especially in energy—and enhancing resilience. Industrial policies can help jump-start domestic industries\, but their efficacy is sensitive to sector-specific characteristics that can be hard to determine in advance. And industrial policies present trade-offs. Onshoring production in a strategic sector might lead to higher consumer prices for a prolonged period. And the fiscal cost of industrial policy can be substantial at a time of elevated debt and constrained public finances. Even when sector-level outcomes are positive\, industrial policy can generate negative cross-sector spillovers and reduce overall productivity by drawing resources inefficiently away from sectors that are not targeted. Effective industrial policy requires careful targeting and implementation\, strong institutions\, complementary structural reforms\, and sound macroeconomic policy. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography: Sebastian Wende is an economist in the Economic Modeling team of the IMF’s Research Department. His work includes both developing and harnessing models\, including the IMF’s Global Macroeconomic Model for the Energy Transition (GMMET\, featured in the Oct 2025 WEO Chp3) and the Global Dynamic Network Model (used in the Oct 2024 WEO Chp2). He has both extensive public and private sector experience\, having worked at the Australian Treasury\, BHP\, and the Reserve Bank of Australia. Sebastian is motivated by enhancing welfare through public policy and fascinated by macro dynamics. He has a PHD from the Australian National University in computational macroeconomics\, focusing on tax efficiency in when financial frictions\, and heterogeneity of households and firms are accounted for. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n Share URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/industrial-policy-managing-trade-offs-to-promote-growth-and-resilience/ LOCATION:HYBRID Perkins Rubenstein 429 / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars,Hybrid ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1655455097964.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T113000 DTSTAMP:20251113T193834Z CREATED:20251111T141154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T193834Z UID:17194-1763374500-1763379000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Investment in Infrastructure and Trade: The Case of Ports DESCRIPTION:Academic Research Seminars Hybrid\n\n\nTheodore Papageorgiou will discuss new research that quantifies the costs of port disruptions and evaluates transportation infrastructure investment. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Theodore Papageorgiou\, Felter Family Professor of Economics at Boston College \n\n\n\nPaper Abstract: (joint with Giulia Brancaccio and Myrto Kalouptsidi) \n\n\n\nTransportation infrastructure is vital for the smooth functioning of international trade. Ports are a crucial gateway to this system: with more than 80% of trade carried by ships\, they shape trade costs\, and it is critical that they operate efficiently. Yet ports are susceptible to disruptions\, causing costly delays. With enormous budgets spent on infrastructure to alleviate these costs\, a key policy question emerges: in a world with high volatility\, what are the returns to investing in infrastructure? To address this question\, we introduce an empirical framework that combines insights from queueing theory to capture port technology\, with tools from demand estimation. We use our framework\, together with a collection of novel datasets\, to quantify the costs of disruptions and evaluate transportation infrastructure investment. Our analysis unveils four policy-relevant messages: (i) investing in port infrastructure can lead to substantial trade and welfare gains\, but only if targeted properly– in fact\, net of costs\, the marginal return to investment is positive at a minority of US ports; (ii) there are sizable spillovers across ports\, as investing in one port can decongest a wider set of ports\, suggesting that decision-making should not be decentralized to local authorities; (iii) the economies of scale arising from queuing would lead a planner to concentrate investment in large\, geographically dispersed megaports; (iv) macroeconomic volatility can drastically change returns to investment. \n\n\n\nWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is permitted for the Harvard community. The Zoom session is open to the public. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Theodore Papageorgiou’s recent research examines transportation markets\, their impact on global trade\, and the policies that can improve their efficiency and resilience. His work also analyzes the sources of disruptions and the optimal level of infrastructure investment. In addition\, he has investigated how occupations shape labor market outcomes\, the role of cities and firms in facilitating occupational matching\, and the role of learning in shaping firm performance. His research integrates insights and tools from labor economics\, macroeconomics\, spatial/urban economics\, and applied microeconomics more broadly. Read more >> \n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n Share URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/investment-in-infrastructure-and-trade-the-case-of-ports/ LOCATION:Wexner G02 CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars,Hybrid ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Theodore-Papageorgiou-e1649542481465.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T113000 DTSTAMP:20251113T194659Z CREATED:20251111T141551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T194659Z UID:17196-1763460900-1763465400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:In Search of a D-ESG Framework for Emerging Markets: What about Environment? DESCRIPTION:Academic Research Seminars Hybrid\n\n\nLourdes Casanova will discuss the expanded ESG framework\, highlighting how sustainable growth in emerging economies requires aligning development\, environmental\, social\, and governance goals within corporate and policy strategies. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Lourdes Casanova\, Senior Lecturer of Management at the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Business\, Cornell University \n\n\n\nPaper Abstract: “The Imperative of Growth: A D-ESG Framework” proposes an expanded ESG perspective integrating Development as a central dimension. The framework highlights how sustainable growth in emerging economies requires aligning development\, environmental\, social\, and governance goals within corporate and policy strategies. The discussion connects to our shared work on industrial policy\, sustainability\, and inclusive growth. \n\n\n\nWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is permitted for the Harvard community. The Zoom session is open to the public. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Lourdes Casanova is the co-author (with Anne Miroux) of the Emerging Market Multinationals Report (2016–2024)\, co-editor of From Copycats to Leaders: Innovation from Emerging Markets (Cambridge University Press)\, and co-author of The Era of Chinese Multinationals and Entrepreneurship and the Finance of Innovation in Emerging Markets (Elsevier). She is also the author of Global Latinas: Latin America’s Emerging Multinationals (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2009). In addition\, she serves on the Global Future Council on the Future of Economic Growth at the World Economic Forum and is a Trustee of Canning House. Read More >> \n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n Share URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/in-search-of-a-d-esg-framework-for-emerging-markets-what-about-environment/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R429) – Rubenstein 4th Floor CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars,Hybrid ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/lourdes_casanova_lc683.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR