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  • Research Seminar: Anthropogenic Material Cycles and Sustainable Development

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    • Academic Research Seminars
    • 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. Anthropogenic Material Cycles and Sustainable Development Abstract: Modern society relies on the use of more diverse materials and the growing amount of each material, and results in several […]

    Research Seminar: Globalization and the Ladder of Development: Pushed to the Top or Held at the Bottom?

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    • Academic Research Seminars
    • Growth Lab

    Title: Globalization and the Ladder of Development: Pushed to the Top or Held at the Bottom?Please register in advance. Contact Chuck McKenney with any questions.Abstract: We study the relationship between international trade and development in a model where countries differ in their capability, goods differ in their complexity, and capability growth is a function of […]

  • Research Seminar – Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    Apollo's Arrow offers a broad account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020 and of how the pandemic will unfold, and ultimately end, in the coming years. Using up-to-the-moment information, and drawing on epidemiology, sociology, medicine, public health, history, virology, and other fields, it explores what it […]

    Research Seminar: The Cushioning Effect of Immigrant Mobility

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    Speaker: Cem Özgüzel, Economist, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Abstract: During the Great Recession, immigrants reacted to the drop in labour demand in Spain through internal migration or leaving the country. Consequently, provinces lost 13.5% of their immigrants or -3% of the total labour supply, on average. Using municipal registers and longitudinal administrative data, […]

  • Research Seminar: Innovation Networks and Innovation Policy

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    • Academic Research Seminars

    Speaker: Ernest Liu, Assistant Professor of Economics at the Bendheim Center for Finance in Princeton's Department of Economics Paper: Innovation Networks and Innovation Policy Abstract: We study the optimal allocation of R&D resources in an endogenous growth model with an innovation network, through which one sector’s past innovations may benefit other sectors’ future innovations. First, we provide closed-form […]

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