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SUMMARY:The Canadian Standard of Living\, Productivity and Innovation Lecture Series: Core Productivity Drivers and Diagnostics
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks Hybrid\n\n\nThis event is part of the CIGI Speaker Series The Canadian Standard of Living\, Productivity and Innovation hosted by the Centre for International Governance Innovation. \n\n\n\nProductivity\, innovation adoption and standard of living are intrinsically linked. Due to lagging productivity\, Canada’s standard of living has dramatically declined\, particularly in the last two decades — a trend felt by individuals\, communities and businesses across the country. \n\n\n\nIn this lecture\, Growth Lab Director Ricardo Hausmann will examine how emerging forces including new technologies\, alongside enduring factors such as natural resources\, are reshaping productivity\, prosperity and Canada’s economic trajectory. \n\n\n\nThis hybrid event will be followed by a discussion with CIGI Senior Fellow Vass Bednar and closing remarks from physicist\, inventor\, entrepreneur and philanthropist Savvas Chamberlain. \n\n\n\nWhether you are attending online or in-person\, please RSVP. In-person attendees are invited to arrive at 5:00 p.m. EDT for networking and refreshments. The lecture will begin promptly at 5:45 p.m. EDT for online and in-person attendees. \n\n\n\nAbout the lecture series:\n\n\n\nThe Canadian Standard of Living\, Productivity and Innovation lecture series\, sponsored by Savvas Chamberlain and presented by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)\, brings together CEOs\, financiers\, manufacturers\, policy makers and influencers\, empowering them to champion the adoption of innovation — a critical step in reversing Canada’s productivity decline. \n\n\n\nEach lecture will feature a keynote presentation from a distinguished global or Canadian speaker\, followed by a forward-looking discussion focused on practical pathways for change\, highlighting how individual\, institutional and policy choices can shape Canada’s long-term economic performance and prosperity. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  Share
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/the-canadian-standard-of-living-productivity-and-innovation-lecture-series-core-productivity-drivers-and-diagnostics/
CATEGORIES:Hybrid
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SUMMARY:Industrial Policy in Action: Lessons from Over a Decade at the Department of Energy
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks Hybrid\n\n\nThe energy sector stands at an inflection point. After 15 years of remarkable change\, the convergence of surging electricity demand\, climate pressures\, and emerging industries promises even more rapid transformation. This presentation and discussion draws on Garrett’s experience at the Department of Energy and Waypoint Strategy Group to explore the path from research to commercialization\, the impacts of policy on technology development and deployment\, and the broader ecosystem that makes modern energy systems work. We’ll close with a look at what the coming years may hold. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Garrett Nilsen\, Co-Founder and Partner Waypoint Strategy Group  \n\n\n\nWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is permitted for the Harvard community. Lunch will be served. The Zoom session is open to the public. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Garrett spent over 13 years working in the US Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO)\, rising the roles of Deputy (and Acting) Director\, aiding the industry’s rise from a minor contributor to the US electricity sector to the nation’s fastest growing energy source. He managed a $300+ million-per-year portfolio spanning photovoltaics\, solar-thermal\, grid integration\, supply-chain resilience\, and non-hardware solar costs (e.g. workforce development\, siting\, community acceptance\, equitable access to solar). Under his leadership the office launched first of their kind programs to address technology commercialization\, solar energy and load forecasting\, renewable energy siting\, renewable energy grid interconnection\, new uses of solar\, and more. Prior to leadership roles at SETO\, he led teams working on accelerating technologies to market and got to see first hand how industrial policy can shape a technologies future. Garrett is now at Waypoint Strategy Group\, which he founded with 3 other senior DOE leaders in 2025 to bring lessons on technology research\, development\, and commercialization and effective funding program design to the world.  \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/industrial-policy-in-action-lessons-from-over-a-decade-at-the-department-of-energy/
LOCATION:Allison Dining Room (T-520)
CATEGORIES:Development Talks,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T120000
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SUMMARY:Faculty Webinar 2026: Leading Green Growth
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks Hybrid\n\n\nAs the world transitions to a lower carbon economy\, new industries\, markets\, and paths to economic prosperity are emerging. Join Harvard faculty Ricardo Hausmann and Daniel Schrag for a 1-hour webinar on how the current energy transition is reshaping economic opportunity around the world—opening new doors for some and posing threats to others—and explore what this transition means for you.  \n\n\n\nLearn more about their upcoming HKS Executive Education Program\, Leading Green Growth\, here. \n\n\n\nThis is a free\, live webinar that will last approximately 1 hour\, and the recording will be distributed to all registrants. This presentation does not qualify for a certificate.  \n\n\n\nPersons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access\, please contact Grace Brown at gbrown@hks.harvard.edu in advance of the session. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  Share
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/faculty-webinar-2026-leading-green-growth/
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T130000
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SUMMARY:From Vacant Houses to Growth-Ready Capabilities: A Place-Based Growth Diagnostic
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks Hybrid\n\n\nThis talk explores housing vacancy as a source of insight into how cities can unlock new growth opportunities. Using Baltimore as a case study\, it highlights how strengthening institutional coordination\, capital access\, and prevention capacity can shape more resilient development trajectories. The talk connects place-based innovation to Growth Lab frameworks on capabilities\, complexity\, and structural transformation.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Terrance Smith\, Chief Innovation Officer for the city of Baltimore \n\n\n\nWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is permitted for the Harvard community. Lunch will be served. The Zoom session is open to the public. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Terrance Smith is a public innovation leader focused on designing trustworthy public institutions that demonstrate ability\, humanity\, and integrity through how systems actually operate. \n\n\n\nHe currently serves as Chief Innovation Officer for the city of Baltimore\, leading two high-performing teams advancing public safety recruitment and retention and housing vacancy prevention\, while delivering system-level outcomes and building institutional capacity for trust and performance at scale. \n\n\n\nPreviously\, Terrance was a Public Innovation Fellow at the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University and served as Innovation Director for the City of Mobile\, Alabama\, where he founded the Mayor’s Office of Strategic Initiatives and led the city’s Innovation Team and Datacenter. In Mobile\, his work helped reduce blighted properties by 53 percent\, earning national recognition from Fast Company and catalyzing legislative change and new models for cities addressing long-term disinvestment. \n\n\n\nAcross housing\, public safety\, and service delivery\, Terrance’s work centers on a core insight: public innovation succeeds when trust is designed into systems\, not treated as a byproduct. He has been named a Bloomberg Cities CityLab Innovator to Watch and a Top Forty Under Forty by Mobile Bay Magazine. \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/from-vacant-houses-to-missing-capabilities-a-place-based-growth-diagnostic/
LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse (L-P-9)
CATEGORIES:Development Talks,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260210T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260210T111500
DTSTAMP:20260412T101213
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SUMMARY:Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Targeting Place-Based Policies for Canada's Low-Carbon Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks Hybrid\n\n\nIn this Academic Research Seminar\, Jacob Greenspon will present his paper “Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Targeting Place-Based Policies for Canada’s Low-Carbon Transformation.” \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jacob Greenspon\, Doctoral candidate in Economics\, University of Oxford and Research Manager\, HKS Reimagining the Economy Project \n\n\n\nWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. \n\n\n\nPaper Abstract: Negative labour demand shocks are often regionally concentrated. Policies that address their impacts are most effective and efficient when tailored to local circumstances. Using newly- assembled data on Canadian communities’ economic challenges and opportunities\, I analyze place-based policy targeting in response to workforce disruptions from GHG reductions. I first motivate and outline the goals of policies that aim to address local labour demand shocks. I next characterize the Canadian communities with workforces susceptible to GHG reduction efforts. I then analyze the suitability in each community of three broad policy responses based on regional characteristics and insights from prior literature. First\, to guide provision of income supports for early retirees\, I document large differences in the age profiles of susceptible local workforces. Second\, I argue retraining programs are most suitable for susceptible workers that have strong job transition opportunities and\, based on a newly-developed measure\, estimate substantial variation in the proportion of these workers across susceptible communities. Third\, I analyze nine domains related to challenges and opportunities for local job creation: high-speed broadband access; physical infrastructure; small business services and financing; higher-education attainment; childcare and housing availability; renewable energy generation; critical minerals production; and publicly-funded research. I assess the relative priority of interventions in each domain and identify four clusters of susceptible communities with similar priorities. I conclude with a discussion of how these results can be incorporated into collaborative federal and local policymaking processes. \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/beyond-one-size-fits-all-targeting-place-based-policies-for-canadas-low-carbon-transformation/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – R-429 Rubenstein 4th floor
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T130000
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SUMMARY:2026 Summer Internship Informational Fair
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks Hybrid\n\n\nEach year\, the Growth Lab offers students exciting opportunities to work with its research teams on applied projects around the world\, often embedded with local governments and project counterparts. Opportunities for summer 2026 include work on the Growth Lab’s Bolivia\, Cambodia\, Córdoba\, Argentina\, Ecuador\, Malawi\, Morocco and North American Cities projects. \n\n\n\nWe are hosting a pizza lunch on Thursday\, February 5th at 12 pm to provide more information and answer any questions about this year’s internship opportunities. Please register. \n\n\n\nWe look forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\nNote: The Growth Lab Summer Internship is separate from CID’s Global Internship Program. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  Share
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/2026-summer-internship-informational-fair/
LOCATION:NYE AB (T-520)
CATEGORIES:In-Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T130000
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SUMMARY:Getting Things Done: Issue Spotting in the Infrastructure Development Projects Ecosystem
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks Hybrid\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  Share\n	\n  \n  \n    \n  \n  \n  \n  \n    \n  \n  \n  \n    \n  \n  \n  \n  \n    \n  \n  \n  \n  \n    \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this Development Talk\, Bill Dobbs will share a front‑row view of how public policy\, governance\, and engineering intersect in real‑world settings. He will offer Insights into how large public works succeed—or fail—depending on governance\, institutions\, and the quality of decision‑making and practical advice to future policy makers on infrastructure project management.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Bill Dobbs\, Former Civil and Structural Engineer and Project Manager \n\n\n\nModerator: Ricardo Hausmann\, Director\, Growth Lab \n\n\n\nWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is permitted for the Harvard community. Lunch will be served. The Zoom session is open to the public. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Over nearly fifty years as a civil and structural engineer and project manager\, Bill Dobbs has worked on major infrastructure projects in over 20 countries. Trained (B.Sc.\, and M.Eng.) at Cornell University\, Bill Dobbs has overseen the design and construction of\, inter alia\, hydroelectric dams\, tunnels\, water and wastewater systems\, transportation projects\, and U.S. government facilities across South Asia\, Southeast Asia\, Africa\, Latin America\, and Eastern Europe. Many of his projects were funded by international institutions such as USAID\, the Islamic Development Bank\, the Asian Development Bank\, the Inter‑American Development Bank\, and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency. \n\n\n\nMr. Dobbs brings a technically sophisticated\, but practical and culturally sensitive focus to world-class engineering projects. His assignments required navigating through complex stakeholder environments involving national government agencies\, local communities\, international lenders\, and private contractors. \n\n\n\nWhether dealing with funding agencies\, aligning infrastructure plans with social and environmental safeguards\, or helping governments build technical capacity\, he has worked at the point where policy objectives meet on-the-ground realities. He retired from full-time practice in 2024\, but continues to support international projects and maintains contact with his professional associates\, offering them guidance in their professional careers.  \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.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/getting-things-done-issue-spotting-in-the-infrastructure-development-projects/
LOCATION:Democracy Lab (414-AB)
CATEGORIES:Development Talks,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260203T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260203T111500
DTSTAMP:20260412T101213
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SUMMARY:Global Science Sustains U.S. Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks Hybrid\n\n\nIn this Academic Research Seminar\, Chris Ross Esposito uncovers the structure of the U.S. knowledge supply chain by tracing multi-generational citation paths that connect NSF-funded research to downstream patents\, and assess its fragility by simulating barriers that impede the flow of scientific knowledge across the U.S. border. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Christopher Ross Esposito\, Osborne Postdoctoral Fellow in the Strategy Unit at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management \n\n\n\nThe speaker will be online but a viewing will be held in the Perkins Room (R-429). Room attendance is permitted for the Harvard community\, the Zoom session is open to the public. Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.  \n\n\n\nPaper Abstract: Like physical products\, new technologies are developed using globally sourced inputs. But while the supply chains behind physical goods are well understood\, we know far less about the international ”supply chain” of scientific knowledge that powers U.S. innovation—and how vulnerable it may be to disruption. Here\, I uncover the structure of the U.S. knowledge supply chain by tracing multi-generational citation paths that connect NSF-funded research to downstream patents\, and assess its fragility by simulating barriers that impede the flow of scientific knowledge across the U.S. border. The results reveal that U.S. innovation is deeply reliant on foreign science: 56% of the intermediary papers linking NSF research to patents are produced outside the United States. Cross-border restrictions reduce the connectivity of these paths\, increase their length\, and lower innovation productivity\, as measured by the U.S. patent-to-publication ratio. Most consequentially\, such restrictions strand promising knowledge trajectories outside the U.S.: I estimate there are 104\,149 NSF-stimulated paths currently under development outside the U.S. Under the status quo\, 67\,965 are projected to return to the U.S. for patenting. However\, under scientific autarky\, virtually none would\, representing a loss of approximately $10.7 billion in invested capital. These impacts also affect U.S. firms that are critical to national priorities\, including innovation\, energy\, and security. For example\, autarky reduces outstanding path capture at Microsoft\, ExxonMobil\, and Lockheed Martin by between 48% and 57%. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Chris Ross Esposito is the Osborne Postdoctoral Fellow in the Strategy Unit at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management\, where he is also associated with the Price Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Previously\, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago and completed a PhD at UCLA in Geography. Chris uses computational and econometric methods to examine key issues in scientific and technological innovation\, including the global dynamics and geopolitical consequences of China’s expanding leadership in science\, the drivers of the innovative capacities of cities\, and the effects of knowledge obsolescence on the organization of the innovation economy. While grounded in theoretical inquiry\, his research generates critical insights for organizational innovation strategy and public policy at the national and metropolitan levels. \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/global-science-sustains-u-s-innovation/
LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-429)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars,Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T111500
DTSTAMP:20260412T101213
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SUMMARY:The World is Not Flat: Persistence in the Hierarchy of Economic Complexity Across a Century
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks Hybrid\n\n\nIn this Academic Research Seminar\, Gregor Semieniuk will discuss his paper “The World is Not Flat: Persistence in the Hierarchy of Economic Complexity Across a Century.” \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Gregor Semieniuk\, Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. \n\n\n\nThe speaker will be online but a viewing will be held in the Perkins Room (R-429). Room attendance is permitted for the Harvard community\, the Zoom session is open to the public. Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register  in advance. \n\n\n\nAuthors: Isabella M. Weber\, Gregor Semieniuk\, Junshang Liang\, Tom Westland \n\n\n\nPaper Abstract: To explain long-run cross-country differences in income\, most studies focus on persistent non-economic factors as drivers such as culture\, institutions and geography. In this paper\, we examine a more distinctly economic explanation: persistence in countries’ economic complexity. We construct a new global commodity-level export dataset from the peak of the ‘First Globalization’ prior to the First World War to analyze economic complexity across the first and the current waves of globalization. We show that economic complexity is highly persistent\, and a powerful predictor of national income across the world today even when controlling for historical institutions\, colonial status\, geography and when considering alternative measures of complexity. We exploit the switch from sailing to steamboat transport\, which had heterogenous effects on global trading costs to argue that the persistence is not driven by omitted variables. We further confirm the plausibility of persistence by explicitly testing the transmission mechanism of path-dependence in capabilities\, showing that when countries moved into new export lines\, they were more likely to move into products that were proximate to ones they already exported. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Gregor Semieniuk is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on structural change and economic development in the context of climate change and its mitigation\, and he often studies these problems through the lens of economic inequality. Gregor’s work has been published in 24 peer-reviewed articles including multiple times in Nature Climate Change and Nature Energy\, and four of them are among the top 1% cited in their field according to Web of Science. Gregor’s work is often mentioned in the media\, including the Financial Times\, Guardian\, Bloomberg and the Economist\, and he has advised international organizations and testified before the Senate’s Committee on the Budget. From 2023 to 2025\, Gregor worked as a Senior Climate Change Economist on staff at the World Bank\, providing technical leadership on decarbonization strategies and industrial policy for clean tech investments with a focus on Eastern Europe. Before joining UMass Amherst\, Gregor was a Lecturer (the UK’s assistant professor) in Economics at SOAS University of London. \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/the-world-is-not-flat-persistence-in-the-hierarchy-of-economic-complexity-across-a-century-2/
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars,Hybrid
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SUMMARY:Venezuela After Maduro
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks Hybrid\n\n\nA timely discussion about the country’s future\, the region’s stability\, and America’s approach to the Hemisphere\n\n\n\nJoin the Institute of Politics for a timely virtual panel discussion examining recent political\, economic\, and democratic developments in Venezuela. Featuring leading voices from government\, academia\, and civil society\, the conversation will explore the country’s evolving challenges\, regional implications\, and prospects for democratic change. This event is open to all who are interested in understanding Venezuela’s future and its significance for the Western Hemisphere. \n\n\n\nFeaturing: \n\n\n\nFreddy Guevara\, Ash Center Democracy Visiting Fellow; Venezuelan opposition politician\, former deputy and vice president of the National Assembly\, and key figure in the anti-Maduro movement who has faced political persecution and imprisonment \n\n\n\nRicardo Hausmann\, Harvard Kennedy School Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy; Director of the Growth Lab \n\n\n\nDr. Rebecca Bill Chavez\, President and CEO of the Inter-American Dialogue; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs \n\n\n\nJuan Gonzalez\, Resident Fellow at Georgetown Americas Institute; Former Senior Director of the National Security Council for the Western Hemisphere \n\n\n\nThis event will be moderated by Ned Price\, Interim Co-Director\, Institute of Politics; Former Deputy to the U.S. Representative to the United Nations\, and former Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsors: Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights; Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; The Growth Lab at Harvard Kennedy School. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  Share
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/venezuela-after-maduro/
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251202T113000
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SUMMARY:The Geographic and Sectoral Impact of Productivity
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks Hybrid\n\n\nFederico Huneeus will discuss the geographic and sectoral impact of productivity changes and the local and aggregate impact of development policies\, the growth of the lithium industry\, and the closure of a major steel company. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Federico Huneeus\, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Duke University\, Senior Economist at the Central Bank of Chile \n\n\n\nPaper Abstract: We study the geographic and sectoral impact of productivity changes in a model that includes production linkages throughout the supply chain\, labor migration\, international and domestic trade\, congestion of fixed factors\, firm entry and exit\, and knowledge diffusion. To quantify these impacts\, we construct\, for the first time for Chile\, input-output matrices disaggregated by geography and sector\, consistent with national accounts\, using administrative data and surveys. We use the model to study the local and aggregate impact of development policies\, the growth of the lithium industry\, and the closure of a major steel company. In addition to aggregate impacts\, we identify winners and losers from these events. \n\n\n\nThis event is online only. Please register in advance. The Zoom session is open to the public. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Federico Huneeus is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Duke University. He is also a Senior Economist at the Central Bank of Chile. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale University Cowles Foundation. He has a PhD in economics from Princeton University. He is a trade economist who investigates issues related to firm behavior\, from a micro and macro perspective\, with a special focus on the study of production networks of firms\, how they are formed\, how they affect productivity growth and how they affect the impact of development policies. He also has a line of research on understanding equity-efficiency trade-offs. \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\n\n\n\n  Share
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/17292/
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars,Online,Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T143000
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SUMMARY:Exiting the Resource Curse: The Political Economy of Natural Resource Management in Latin America
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks Hybrid\n\n\nLatin America is one of the world’s most resource-rich regions\, with major oil reserves in Brazil\, Mexico\, and Venezuela\, abundant natural gas in Argentina and Bolivia\, and significant mineral deposits in Bolivia\, Colombia\, Chile\, and Peru. Yet\, natural resource management in the region is often shaped by shifting political and economic factors\, including ideological rifts and volatile commodity prices\, hindering consistent policy and institutional development to manage rents and foster broader economic development. \n\n\n\nOsmel Manzano will discuss the key challenges and opportunities for effective natural resource management in Latin America\, and its implications for economic development and productive diversification. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Osmel Manzano\, Regional Economic Advisor for the Country Department for the Andean Group at the Inter-American Development Bank \n\n\n\nWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is permitted for the Harvard community. Refreshments will be served. The Zoom session is open to the public. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Osmel Manzano is an Adjunct Professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service (Georgetown University) and the Elliot School of International Affairs (George Washington University). He is also Regional Economic Advisor for the Country Department for the Andean Group at the Inter-American Development Bank. He has taught courses on Macroeconomics\, Public Finance\, Energy Economics and Oil Economics. He is responsible for the economic work and macroeconomic monitoring of the IADB in the Andean Region. He has been working on the development challenges in Latin America\, with emphasis on resource abundance\, agriculture\, energy\, and growth and productivity. He has authored different publications on these subjects. Read more >> \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  Share
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/exiting-the-resource-curse-the-political-economy-of-natural-resource-management-in-latin-america/
LOCATION:Wexner 434 AB
CATEGORIES:Development Talks,Hybrid
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T113000
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SUMMARY:In Search of a D-ESG Framework for Emerging Markets: What about Environment?
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks 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
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T113000
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SUMMARY:Investment in Infrastructure and Trade: The Case of Ports
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks 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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251105T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251105T114500
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SUMMARY:Green Growth by Design: The Science and Strategy of Greenplexity
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks Hybrid\n\n\nA live demo and Q&A with Professor Ricardo Hausmann on the release of next-gen Greenplexity\, a groundbreaking data and strategy tool that reveals how countries can identify their most promising opportunities across ten value chains at the heart of the global energy transition. \n\n\n\nWe’ll also reveal the Greenplexity Index\, a new country ranking that spotlights which nations are building the broad\, complex green industries that will supply the world’s race to decarbonize. \n\n\n\nAdditional speakers:Annie White\, Director of Software ToolsKetan Ahuja\, Research Fellow \n\n\n\nModerator: Daniel Schrag\, Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment \n\n\n\nWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is permitted for the Harvard community. Refreshments will be served. The Zoom session is open to the public. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  Share
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/green-growth-by-design-the-science-and-strategy-of-greenplexity/
LOCATION:Democracy Lab 414AB
CATEGORIES:Hybrid
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T113000
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SUMMARY:Industrial Policy: Managing Trade-Offs to Promote Growth and Resilience
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks 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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T120000
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SUMMARY:AI and Economic Development: Opportunities\, Challenges\, and Policy Implications
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks 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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T113000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Real Effects of Academic Research Revisited
DESCRIPTION:Development Talks 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:Development Talks 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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SUMMARY:Building Industries in Green Value Chains
DESCRIPTION:Ecuador: Reactivación Económica en la Encrucijada Global y la Nueva EraComercial\n\n\n\n\n\nDevelopment Talks Hybrid\n\n\nThe energy transition offers countries a defining opportunity for green growth by building industries for manufactured goods in value chains for energy technologies. As the world needs many more wind turbines\, electric vehicles\, batteries\, heat pumps and other energy technologies\, places that manufacture these goods (or their inputs) will be well-positioned to win the industries of the future. \n\n\n\nHear from experts at Harvard’s Growth Lab about their work helping different countries build an industrial base in clean energy technologies. This event will profile green industrial policy initiatives in Morocco\, South Africa\, and Mexico\, and demo the Growth Lab’s ‘Greenplexity’ tool\, which helps places understand their economic opportunities in green value chains. There will also be time for an open discussion on green industrial policy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  Share\n	\n  \n  \n    \n  \n  \n  \n  \n    \n  \n  \n  \n    \n  \n  \n  \n  \n    \n  \n  \n  \n  \n    \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPricing
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/building-industries-in-green-value-chains/
LOCATION:HYBRID Democracy Lab R414AB / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Growth Lab
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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
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SUMMARY:Growth Lab Development Talk - Green Steel in Namibia: Progress Report Summary
DESCRIPTION:The 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. 	Speaker: James Mnyupe\, Presidential Economic Advisor and Hydrogen Commissioner\, Government of The Republic of Namibia 	Moderator: Ketan Ahuja\, Growth Lab Research Fellow 	About the Talk: James Mnyupe will speak about his work in Namibia setting up an industrial ecosystem around green hydrogen production\, and related industries. He will discuss a pilot project involving direct reduced iron production using green hydrogen that is currently being commissioned. The speaker invites attendees to watch this video before the event. 	Whether attending in person or online\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Buffet lunch will be served. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. \nAbout the Speaker: Mr. Mnyupe is a multidisciplinary financial professional with a background in accounting\, asset management and wealth management. A graduate of UNAM and Rhodes University\, Mr. Mnyupe plied his trade in the private sector for over a decade auditing a wide variety of companies in all three sectors of the Namibian economy and undertook extensive research on listed securities on the local stock exchange. He led one of Namibia’s prominent asset management firms for five years\, was the Founding Chair of the Namibia Savings and Investment Association\, was appointed to the High-Level Panel on the Namibian Economy in 2019 by President Hage Geingob and holds the CA\, CFA and CFP designations. Mr Mnyupe possesses a holistic appreciation for how the capital and institutional savings markets intertwine to drive Namibia’s economic and developmental agenda. His involvement in various industry and national bodies have offered him a unique perspective from which to contribute to various dialogues and initiatives that look to deploy said assets across various opportunity sets\, locally and regionally more effectively.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/growth-lab-development-talk-green-steel-in-namibia-progress-report-summary/
LOCATION:Allison Dining Room (T-520)
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T114500
DTSTAMP:20260412T101213
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T114500
DTSTAMP:20260412T101213
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250310T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250310T130000
DTSTAMP:20260412T101213
CREATED:20250305T023200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T002107Z
UID:14928-1741608000-1741611600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Info Session: An Exploration of Rural American Economies Study Group
DESCRIPTION:All students are welcome to join us for an informational session about the opportunity to participate in a 6-week Growth Lab study Group on Rural Economies. The info session will include an introductory presentation and Q&A by the Growth Lab and virtual participation by the Wyoming Business Council and/or New Mexico Economic Development Department. 	RSVP is required.  Lunch will be provided. 	Optional preparation for info session: “What everyone should know about rural America ahead of the 2024 election” and “Rural America’s economies are often left out by a design flaw in federal funding.” 	About the study group:This study group will meet weekly over six weeks (Mondays 4-5:30PM) to introduce and discuss issues facing rural economies across the United States and relevant national\, state\, and local strategies. The study group will bring in learnings and guests from the Growth Lab’s multi-year research project in Wyoming and new research in New Mexico\, as well as material from the Brookings Institution’s Reimagining Rural Policy program. 	Application is required. Apply by Friday\, March 13. 	For more information about the six sessions\, visit growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/study-groups.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/info-session-an-exploration-of-rural-american-economies-study-group/
LOCATION:Wexner 434-A
CATEGORIES:Growth Lab
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T124500
DTSTAMP:20260412T101213
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250304T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250304T170000
DTSTAMP:20260412T101213
CREATED:20240312T181600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001631Z
UID:14905-1741104000-1741107600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Webinar: Strategies for Inclusive Growth
DESCRIPTION:Join Ricardo Hausmann and Matt Andrews for a one-hour webinar on the rapidly evolving paths to economic prosperity and how rethinking economic policy\, from design to implementation\, can advance shared prosperity for all.  	This webinar will include topics covered in the upcoming executive program Strategies for Inclusive Growth. Speakers:	Ricardo Hausmann is the Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at HKS\, and director of the Growth Lab.  	Matt Andrews is the Edward S. Mason Senior Lecturer in International Development at HKS\, and director of Building State Capability.  	Please register in advance. The webinar will be recorded and distributed to all attendees. This presentation does not qualify for a certificate. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/faculty-webinar-strategies-for-inclusive-growth-2/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250226T233000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T004500
DTSTAMP:20260412T101213
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T130000
DTSTAMP:20260412T101213
CREATED:20250214T000400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T002219Z
UID:14935-1739448000-1739451600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Leading Green Growth with Ricardo Hausmann and Daniel Schrag
DESCRIPTION:As the world transitions to a lower carbon economy\, new industries\, markets\, and paths to economic prosperity are emerging. Join Harvard faculty Ricardo Hausmann and Daniel Schrag for a 1-hour webinar on how the current energy transition is reshaping economic opportunity around the world—opening new doors for some and posing threats to others—and explore what this transition means for you.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/leading-green-growth-with-ricardo-hausmann-and-daniel-schrag/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T124500
DTSTAMP:20260412T101213
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
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