Harvard Kennedy School
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: David N. Weil, James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics at Brown University Abstract: We develop a new measure of land quality by estimating weights in a Poisson regression […]
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 seminar is co-sponsored by the Project on Workforce at Harvard University. Speaker: Christina Langer, PhD candidate at KU Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Visiting Research Fellow at HKS, Associate at the Growth Lab […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]