Events

  • Development Talk: The Role of Business in South Africa’s Future

    Wexner 434 AB, Zoom (registration information below)
    • Development Talks

    The Growth Lab's Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. This event is co-sponsored by Harvard's Center for African Studies.  Speaker: Ann Bernstein, Executive Director, Centre for […]

  • Development Talk: Political Favoritism and Regime Stability – Why Bad Policy is Almost Always Good Politics

    T-520 Allison Dining Room, Zoom (registration information below)
    • Development Talks

    The Growth Lab's Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.  Speakers:Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Silver Professor; Professor of Politics, New York UniversityAlastair Smith, Bernhardt Denmark Professor of […]

    Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926–2019: Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?

    Zoom (registration information below)
    • Academic Research Seminars

    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. […]

    Development Talk: Culture, Psychology and Economic Development

    Rubenstein 414 AB / Zoom
    • Development Talks

    The Growth Lab's Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. Speaker: Joseph Henrich, Ruth Moore Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Moderator: Eliana La Ferrara, Professor of Public […]

    Heterogeneous Trade Agreements: Evidence from Apparel Trade

    Zoom (registration information below)
    • Academic Research Seminars

    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 […]

    Why Follow the Fed? Monetary Policy in Times of US Tightening

    Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
    • Academic Research Seminars

    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 […]

    Research Seminar: Electoral Turnovers

    Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
    • Academic Research Seminars

    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 […]

  • Export Diversification Strategy: The Case of Knowledge-Intensive Services in Costa Rica

    Wexner 434 AB, Zoom (registration information below)
    • Development Talks

    The Growth Lab's Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. Speaker: Andres Valenciano, John F. Kennedy Fellow, HKS MC/MPA '23 Moderator: Alejandro Rueda-Sanz, Research Fellow, Growth […]

    Green Technological Diversification: The Role of International Linkages in Leader and Follower Countries

    Zoom (registration information below)
    • Academic Research Seminars

    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 […]

    Firm-Level Production Networks: What Do We (Really) Know?

    Zoom (registration information below)
    • Academic Research Seminars

    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 […]

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