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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
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SUMMARY:AI and Economic Development: Opportunities\, Challenges\, and Policy Implications
DESCRIPTION:Academic Research Seminars Hybrid\n\n\nAs artificial intelligence capabilities advance rapidly\, they are beginning to reshape patterns of economic development\, productivity growth\, and labor markets around the world. The emergence of open-source AI is transforming how these technologies diffuse across economies and who can access them. These shifts raise fundamental questions about which sectors and regions will benefit most and what policy frameworks are needed to navigate them. \n\n\n\nThomas Wolf\, Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face\, will discuss how AI is influencing dynamics in economic development\, and explore the key challenges facing policymakers and researchers as they work to understand and guide these transformations. HuggingFace operates the leading open platform for collaboration in AI. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Thomas Wolf\, Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face \n\n\n\nModerator: Pierre-Alex Balland\, Visiting Fellow at the Growth Lab\, and Chief Data Scientist at the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS) \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\nThe Growth Lab’s “Development Talks” is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working on economic growth and development in countries\, regions\, states\, and cities in the US and around the world. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both economic growth and development and analytical work centered on policy. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  Share
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/ai-and-economic-development-opportunities-challenges-and-policy-implications/
LOCATION:Allison Dining Room (T-520)
CATEGORIES:Development Talks,Hybrid
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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
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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
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