BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Growth Lab - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Growth Lab X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Growth Lab REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T130000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20241001T194900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260403T165945Z UID:14880-1730289600-1730293200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: Solving the Impossible Problem of Sovereign Debt Restructuring 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. \nSpeaker: Gregory Makoff\, M-RCBG Senior Fellow\, Author \nModerator: José Ignacio Hernandez\, Former Visiting Fellow\, Growth Lab \nAbout the Talk: Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Senior Fellow Gregory Makoff will talk about sovereign debt restructuring. Drawing lessons from Argentina’s 15-year battle with its creditors following its 2001 default on $100 billion on debt\, Dr. Makoff will discuss the two central challenges of sovereign debt: the “holdout creditor problem” and the problem of designing an effective resolution system while respecting the sovereignty of the country. He will also discuss his current research into whether the current informal system of sovereign debt restructuring is adequate or whether a formal international debt court will eventually be needed. \nWhether 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: Gregory Makoff is the author of Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina’s $100 Billion Debt Restructuring. Prior to writing the book Gregory was an investment banker specializing in liability management and debt restructuring (1993-2014) and worked as a Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Treasury (2015-2016).  Currently\, he is a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and\, since 2015\, has been a non-resident senior fellow writing about sovereign debt at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)\, a think tank based in Waterloo Canada. Gregory holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago (1993) and B.Sc. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in physics and political science (1986). Gregory is also a CFA® charter holder. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-solving-the-impossible-problem-of-sovereign-debt-restructuring/ LOCATION:HYBRID Democracy Lab R414AB / Zoom CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T114500 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20241021T185400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003208Z UID:14984-1730284200-1730288700@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Beyond the Census: Understanding Urban Social Resilience Through Behavioral Mobility Data 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: Esteban Moro\, Ph.D.\, Network Science Institute at Northeastern University Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Abstract: In urban studies\, traditional census data provides a static snapshot of cities\, often missing the dynamic\, real-time interactions that shape urban life and underpin the resilience of our communities. In this talk\, I will present our recent research on understanding the dynamics of our cities by analyzing massive behavioral mobility data from mobile phones\, credit cards\, or social media and its relationship with networked inequalities\, such as experienced segregation\, access to healthy food\, adaptation to the recent pandemic\, and public transportation interventions. I will also discuss the methodological challenges and opportunities of using these datasets for population-wide analysis\, from managing potential biases to designing better causal analysis. Finally\, I will comment on potential data-driven interventions to reinforce the social fabric in cities and mitigate the detrimental impacts of networked inequalities. Speaker Bio: Esteban Moro is a full professor and director of the Social Urban Networks (SUN) group at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University and affiliated faculty at the MIT Media Lab. He was previously a professor and researcher at the Department of Mathematics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid\, the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center at MIT\, and the University of Oxford. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics. Esteban’s work lies in the intersection of big data and computational social science\, with particular attention to human dynamics\, collective intelligence\, social networks\, and urban mobility in problems like viral marketing\, natural disaster management\, or economic segregation in cities. He has received numerous awards for his research\, and his work has appeared in major journals and is regularly covered by media outlets. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-beyond-the-census-understanding-urban-social-resilience-through-behavioral-mobility-data/ LOCATION:HYBRID Perkins Rubenstein 429 / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T114500 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20241018T200500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003305Z UID:14990-1729679400-1729683900@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - The Effects of Transport Infrastructure on Housing Supply: The Role of Land-Use Regulation 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: Kenzo Asahi\, Assistant Professor\, School of Government Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Abstract: We study the impact of new transportation infrastructure on housing supply using historical and microdata from Santiago and exploiting instrumental variables. We find that subway and highway expansions increase residential floor space substantially\, but when we account for land-use regulation\, we see two contrasting dynamics in the city. In the wealthiest quintile\, the effect is negligible for more than 95% of the blocks due to their initial stringent regulation. However\, in blocks in the first four quintiles of wealth\, the impact on housing supply is substantial and homogeneous concerning the initial regulation. We provide evidence that the transport infrastructure triggers regulation to become more permissive everywhere but in the wealthiest neighborhoods. We quantify how land-use regulation limits housing supply\, thus restraining welfare gains from transport infrastructure improvements. Speaker Bio: Kenzo Asahi is an Assistant Professor at the School of Government. His research focus is on the intersection of urban economics and labor economics. His research explores the effect of physical and human space on the human and economic development of city dwellers. He holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)\, a Master in Research (MRes) in Economics from University College London\, a Master of Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from Harvard University\, a Master of Science in Engineering from UC\, and a civil engineer from UC. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-effects-of-transport-infrastructure-on-housing-supply-the-role-of-land-use-regulation/ LOCATION:HYBRID Perkins Rubenstein 429 / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241016T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241016T114500 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20241003T195300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003322Z UID:14992-1729074600-1729079100@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Using Trademarks to Measure Innovation and Capabilities: Opportunities and Challenges 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: Carolina Castaldi\, Ph.D.\, Professor in Geography of Innovation at Utrecht University In this talk\, Prof. Castaldi will review an emerging strand of empirical research using trademarks as data to measure innovation and capabilities. After discussing the specific properties of trademark data\, she will show how they are both complementary and substitutes to patent data in their potential for measuring innovation and capabilities\, at different levels of analysis\, including firms\, regions and countries. Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-using-trademarks-to-measure-innovation-and-capabilities-opportunities-and-challenges/ LOCATION:Zoom / The Perkins Room\, Rubenstein 429 at HKS CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T114500 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20241003T184600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003330Z UID:14993-1728469800-1728474300@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Workers and the Green-Energy Transition: Evidence from 300 million Job Transitions 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: Mark Curtis\, Ph.D.\, Reynolds Professor of Economics and Associate Professor at Wake Forest University Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Paper Abstract (Mark Curtis\, Layla O’Kane and Jisung Park): Using microdata representing more than 130 million online work profiles\, we explore transitions into and out of jobs most likely to be affected by a transition away from carbon-intensive production technologies. Exploiting detailed textual data on job title\, firm name\, occupation\, and industry to focus on workers employed in carbon-intensive (“dirty”) and non–carbon-intensive (“green”) jobs\, we find that the rate of transition from dirty to green jobs is rising rapidly\, increasing 10-fold over the period 2005–21\, including a significant uptick in electric vehicle–related jobs in recent years. Overall\, however\, less than 1% of all workers who leave a dirty job appear to make the transition to a green job. We find that the persistence of employment within dirty industries varies enormously across local labor markets; in some states\, more than half of all transitions out of dirty jobs are into other dirty jobs. Older workers and those without a college education appear less likely to make transitions to green jobs and more likely to other dirty jobs\, other jobs\, or nonemployment. When accounting for the fact that green jobs tend to have later start dates\, it appears that green and dirty jobs have roughly comparable job durations. About the Speaker: E. Mark Curtis is the Reynolds Professor of Economics and associate professor at Wake Forest University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Georgia State University\, his M.A. in economics from Duke University\, and his B.A. from Furman University. His primary fields of research are environmental\, public\, and labor economics with a particular focus on program evaluation\, taxes\, and environmental policy. His research has been widely published and seeks to understand the implications of public policies for firms and workers. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-workers-and-the-green-energy-transition-evidence-from-300-million-job-transitions/ LOCATION:HYBRID – Zoom / The Perkins Room\, Rubenstein 429 at HKS CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240926T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240926T180000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20220907T042900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001751Z UID:14912-1727366400-1727373600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Get to Know the Growth Lab: Research and Student Engagement Showcase DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the Growth Lab’s mission and approach\, our academic research and policy engagements\, and student opportunities. You’ll hear directly from the Growth Lab’s senior leadership\, fellows\, and staff. Speakers include:Ricardo Hausmann – Director\, Growth Lab; Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy\, HKSTim Cheston – Senior Manager\, Applied ResearchTim O’Brien – Senior Manager\, Applied ResearchNikita Taniparti – Research Manager\, Applied ResearchMuhammed Yildirim – Research Director\, Academic Research RSVP is required. Contact Chuck McKenney with any questions. Refreshments will be served.  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/get-to-know-the-growth-lab-research-and-student-engagement-showcase-3/ LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse / Littauer Building CATEGORIES:Growth Lab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T234500 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240912T002100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003645Z UID:15008-1727260200-1727307900@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Did the 2022 Global Energy Crisis Accelerate the Diffusion of Low-Carbon Technologies? 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: Jacob Greenspon\, Ph.D. Candidate in the University of Oxford Coauthored with Paulo Bastos\, Katherine Stapleton\, and Daria Taglioni (World Bank) Location: Democracy Lab R-414 AB / Zoom Whether attending in person or online please register in advance. Speaker Bio: Jacob is a doctoral student in Economics at the University of Oxford and Research Coordinator at the Harvard Kennedy School Reimagining the Economy Project. He has consulted on energy transition research at Resources for the Future\, the World Bank\, and the Institute for Research on Public Policy and worked as an economist for several think tanks and governments in the US and Canada. Paper Abstract: This paper develops measures of the diffusion of a comprehensive range of low-carbon technologies in 35 countries from 2019 to 2022 using text analysis of job postings and earnings calls transcripts. It documents a rapid acceleration in the diffusion of low-carbon technologies in 2022–with hiring in related roles doubling from 2019–that is driven by technologies related to renewable energy\, vehicles\, thermal performance\, and electrical generation and storage. Rapid growth occurred in three quarters of the countries studied and 228 of 300 subnational regions\, although was fastest in Europe. It studies the role of the global energy crisis in triggering this accelerated technology diffusion\, focusing on 16 advanced economies. It finds that establishments in countries that had a higher pre-crisis dependence on imports of natural gas\, and were thus more exposed to the price shock\, differentially increased hiring for low-carbon technology related roles from March 2022 onwards. Within more exposed countries\, establishments with a higher pre-crisis energy intensity also saw a differential increase in hiring relative to less energy intensive ones. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-did-the-2022-global-energy-crisis-accelerate-the-diffusion-of-low-carbon-technologies/ LOCATION:HYBRID Democracy Lab R 414-AB / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars,Growth Lab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T114500 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240912T000200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004156Z UID:15039-1726655400-1726659900@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: The Emergence and Diffusion of Green Technologies: Firm-level Evidence from Textual Analysis of Patents and Corporate Reports 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: Lucio Castro \, Ph.D. \, The World Bank Location: Perkins Conference Room R-429-B / Zoom Whether attending in person or online please register in advance. Speaker Bio: Lucio Castro is a Senior Economist in the Global Investment Climate Unit of the World Bank Group’s Finance\, Competitiveness\, and Innovation Global Practice. Previously\, he worked at IFC Economic and Market Research and Impact Evaluation Departments. Prior to joining the World Bank Group\, he served in various roles\, including Vice-Minister in the Ministry of Production of Argentina\, Alternate Executive Director at the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB)\, and Director of Economic Development at CIPPEC. He was a visiting scholar and research fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development (CID)\, receiving the Fulbright Nexus Scholarship. He worked as economic advisor in Latin America\, Africa\, Asia\, and the Middle East for the IDB\, European Commission\, DfID\, GDN\, CAF\, and national and sub-national governments. Lucio is also Associated Professor at Universidad Austral and Affiliated Researcher with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) SME Initiative. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex and a Masters from Columbia University. Paper Abstract: We draw on the textual analysis of patents and corporate reports matched with multi-country\, firm-level panel data for the period 2012-2021 to uncover new stylized facts on the emergence and diffusion of green technologies across countries\, sectors\, and firms.  We document a growing importance of green technologies after 2019\, Among initially high-emissions firms\, those that mentioned green technologies tend to observe a decline in carbon emissions in subsequent years. Buyer-supplier relationships and innovation partnerships with these firms\, especially when they had high-emissions intensity\, are systematically linked with the diffusion of green technologies. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-emergence-and-diffusion-of-green-technologies-firm-level-evidence-from-textual-analysis-of-patents-and-corporate-reports/ LOCATION:HYBRID Perkins Conference Room R-429-B / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240723T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240723T120000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240711T233100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001220Z UID:14883-1721732400-1721736000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: Using Economic Complexity for Policymaking - The Case of Córdoba\, Argentina 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. This event is online only. Please register in advance. Speakers: Andrés Michel\, Secretary of Economic Policy in the Government of the Province of CórdobaPaula Luvini\, Researcher in the Data Science Area at FundarMatías Gutman\, Coordinator in the Productive Policy Area at Fundar About the talk: Córdoba\, the second largest city in Argentina\, is a major tech and education hub with significant potential to attract new industries. However\, the complexity of the city’s export basket is an important question. The Government of Córdoba and the think tank Fundar conducted a study to explore opportunities for designing a productive development strategy and policy for the city. Economic Complexity is a key tool in this process\, helping to identify sectors with the most potential and to create evidence-based public policies. To achieve this goal\, new data on provincial exports and local firms was used. Using secondary sources and web scraping\, a new geolocated database of export firms and their goods was created. This database was then used to recalculate the complexity indexes at the city level. As a result\, 28 products with potential for Córdoba were selected and grouped into three categories: Machinery\, Food and Beverages\, and others. The Economic Complexity approach is valuable\, leveraging current export data to formulate a concrete plan for future growth. It highlights existing sectors that need improvement and modernization\, as well as strategic sectors that are currently underrepresented but have potential to contribute. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-using-economic-complexity-for-policymaking-the-case-of-cordoba-argentina/ LOCATION:Online/Zoom CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T233000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240612T211500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004231Z UID:15044-1718920800-1718926200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Unveiling the Latent Structures within the Global Science System 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: Lili Miao\, Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University\, School of Informatics\, Computing\, and Engineering Location: W434-B / Zoom Whether attending in person or online please register in advance. Speaker Bio: Lili Miao is a Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University\, School of Informatics\, Computing\, and Engineering. Her research focuses on applying computational methods to understand the interactions among science\, innovation\, and society. Besides publishing in renowned venues\, her research has served as an integral basis for formulating a pilot program—A National Network for Critical Technology Assessment—funded by the NSF and dedicated to informing U.S. national technology policy. She is a recipient of several awards including the Humane Studies Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies and the Best Poster Award at the 1st International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation. Paper Abstract: Science is crucial for innovation and economic prosperity. While numerous studies have investigated the factors influencing national scientific development\, it remains unclear whether universal structures and trajectories exist. Meanwhile\, science is increasingly a global activity\, characterized by the exchange of knowledge\, resources\, and people across national borders. Exchanges\, however\, can often be asymmetrical\, posing risks and costs to global science. Using bibliometric data\, this talk will delve into the underlying structures of national scientific development and examine the impact of global funding and collaboration on national scientific development. The talk will discuss the vicious cycles that hinder the scientific development of developing countries\, the benefits and risks of relying on foreign scientific funding\, and the threats to achieving an equitable global science system. It will conclude with a review of relevant global science policies and recommendations for leveraging large-scale data to formulate and evaluate national and international science policies. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-unveiling-the-latent-structures-within-the-global-science-system/ CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240613T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240613T160000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240514T200700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003216Z UID:14985-1718289000-1718294400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Economic implications of the Inflation Reduction Act: A Dynamic 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. Speakers:  María C. Latorre\, Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense of MadridDavid Suárez-Cuesta\, Faculty Member at Universidad Complutense of MadridLocation: Wexner-102 / ZoomWhether attending in person or online please register in advance. Abstract: We expand a dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the economic impact of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This approach allows for a comprehensive economic analysis\, considering both macro and microeconomic implications. The IRA encompasses a range of policy measures\, both expansionary and contractionary\, implemented between 2022 and 2031. By employing a combination of tax incentives and reforms\, the IRA leads to a modest overall increase in U.S. GDP\, reaching its peak in the mid-decade. However\, these positive effects are tempered by inflationary pressures\, resulting in reduced export competitiveness\, except in sectors directly affected by the IRA\, such as Motor Vehicles and Electrical Equipment. Additionally\, the tax reforms aimed at financing the IRA primarily target corporations\, leading to a significant contractionary effect on the economy. This results in a slight reduction in employment demand but an increase in real wages. We extend beyond the initial estimations provided by the Congressional Budget Office\, which projected $393 billion in tax credits\, by simulating two additional scenarios: 1) accounting for the uncapped effect of tax credits\, considering that private investment announcements resulting from the IRA already exceed the $393 billion threshold in the first year of implementation; and 2) exploring an alternative funding approach through taxes on workers. About the Speakers: María C. Latorre is Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain) and Member of the Group of Experts in Trade of the European Commission. She is Co-chair of the research groups in Data Science and Global Governance both from Real Colegio Complutense (RCC) at Harvard University and Research Fellow from this institution. She leads the “Una Europa Global Governance Research Group.” David Suárez-Cuesta is a Faculty Member at Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain) and Project Operation Manager of the Global Governance Research Group and Member of the Study Group in Data Science from RCC at Harvard University. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-economic-implications-of-the-inflation-reduction-act-a-dynamic-analysis/ LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER -102 / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T160000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240422T143600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003225Z UID:14986-1714055400-1714060800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar - Extraversion and Development: The Logic of Industrial Policy in Post-Liberation Africa 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: Nicolas Lippolis\, Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia Climate SchoolLocation: R414-B / ZoomWhether attending in person or online please register in advance.Speaker Bio: Nicolas obtained his doctorate (DPhil) in Politics from the University of Oxford. Prior to the doctorate\, Nicolas earned an MSc in Economics for Development and a BA in Philosophy\, Politics and Economics\, both from Oxford University. He has taught at Oxford\, Sciences Po Paris\, and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has also consulted with the World Bank\, and previously worked in emerging markets macroeconomic research at Goldman Sachs in London. Nicolas is a native of Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-extraversion-and-development-the-logic-of-industrial-policy-in-post-liberation-africa/ LOCATION:R414-B / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T130000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240402T181600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T000658Z UID:14865-1713787200-1713790800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk - Banking on Colombia’s Development: Innovation and Growth at Bancoldex 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: Javier Díaz Fajardo\, President and CEO of Bancóldex Moderator: Juan Jimenez\, Lecturer in Public Policy\, HKS This session will focus on Innovation and Growth at Bancoldex\, Colombia’s entrepreneurial development and export-import bank.   Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. Boxed lunch will be provided after the event. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. Speaker Bio: Javier Díaz Fajardo has thirty years of experience in financial markets. His work in this field includes management positions in New York\, Washington and Colombia. He has been president of Bancóldex\, Colombia’s business development bank\, since 2019. During this time\, he has led the growth of the entity\, exceeding $10 billion in total assets\, and has transformed the entity’s business model\, going from being a second-tier bank for commercial banking to one that provides direct credit to Colombian companies with an emphasis on innovation\, sustainability and digital transformation. In October 2023\, he was appointed co-president of the Development Banks Club (IDFC)\, an organization made up of 26 development institutions from around the world. Previously\, he was CEO of Renta 4 Global Fiduciaria\, an asset management startup (subsidiary of the Spanish bank Renta4). Until 2017 he was Commercial Vice President and Vice President Corporate of the Colombian Stock Exchange\, where he designed and completed the initial financing for a2censo\, a fintech that allows Colombian micro\, small and medium-sized companies to issue bonds to investors through crowdfunding.Diaz Fajardo holds a Master’s degree in International Business from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and a law degree from the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. In addition\, he is a member of the Society of Kauffman Fellows\, the main venture capital and entrepreneurship network in Silicon Valley\, and is a founding member of the Colombian Institute of Corporate Governance. He has served on 10 boards of directors and taught the class “Financial System: History\, Strategy and Leadership” at CESA\, Colombia’s main business school. He also served as Vice President of Investor Relations at Grupo Aval\, Colombia’s largest financial group\, and was a director of Andes Capital\, a Colombian venture capital fund that he co-founded.    URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-banking-on-colombias-development-innovation-and-growth-at-bancoldex/ LOCATION:HYBRID R-306\, HKS / Zoom CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240405T233600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003908Z UID:15020-1712743200-1712748600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Labor Markets & Green Industrial Policy 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: Christophe Combemale\, Assistant Research Professor\, Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon UniversityLocation: WEXNER W-434 A.B. (Harvard Community) / Zoom Whether attending in person or online please register in advance.  About the Speakers:  Christophe Combemale’s research focuses on the implications of technology choices and process design for skill demand\, and on workforce supply chain levers to meet industry skill demand needs. He is interested in how regional and national labor supply may constrain economic productivity and innovation\, and solutions that enhance outcomes for workers and firms.  He co-leads the Workforce Supply Chains Initiative at the Block Center for Technology and Society. Last year\, he was the workforce research lead for an NSF-funded pilot program seeking to develop a National Network for Critical Technology Assessment. The program developed assessment capabilities for critical technologies for U.S. competitiveness\, to offer insights to U.S. legislators and other policy stakeholders. Combemale is also the CEO of Valdos Consulting\, a firm specializing in techno-economic modeling to support market\, technology\, and workforce strategy. Combemale and team currently apply these domains on behalf of federal\, academic and private clients in health and human services\, technology services as well as advanced manufacturing including semiconductors\, robotics\, electric vehicles\, and defense industrial applications.      URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-labor-markets-green-industrial-policy/ LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER W-434 AB\, HKS / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240208T020000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004149Z UID:15038-1712138400-1712143800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: The Economic Impact of Transport Infrastructure: A Review of Project-level vs. Aggregate-level Meta-Evidence 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: Timo Välilä\, Honorary Professor\, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction\, UCL Location: HYBRID: WEXNER W-434 A.B. / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Abstract. This article undertakes a comparison of quantitative meta-studies at project level and at aggregate level to assess how well the economic impact of transport infrastructure is understood. Project-level analyses\, based on the so-called Flyvbjerg database\, have documented systematic cost overruns and\, less conclusively\, traffic demand shortfalls\, and they have interpreted these findings as being indicative of negative social welfare consequences of transport infrastructure investment projects. In contrast\, aggregate-level meta-analyses find consistently that there is a positive relationship between transport infrastructure and measured economic activity at the level of regions or countries\, especially in the long run and at higher levels of geographical aggregation. This seeming tension between the meta-results at different levels has been considered a paradox. However\, neither the project-level meta-results\, nor the available ex post evaluations of larger samples of transport infrastructure projects provide any conclusive evidence of their social welfare consequences\, and even if they did\, changes in social welfare and economic activity do not need to point in the same direction. There is therefore no paradox about the economic impact of transport infrastructure – we just do not understand its social welfare consequences at the meta-level as well as we understand its relationship with measured aggregate output. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-economic-impact-of-transport-infrastructure-a-review-of-project-level-vs-aggregate-level-meta-evidence/ LOCATION:WEXNER W-434 A.B. / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T130000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240308T004200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T000810Z UID:14871-1711540800-1711544400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: Economic Gardening and Capitalism’s Conundrum 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. This event is co-sponsored with the Taubman Center for State & Local Government. Speaker: Christian Gibbons\, founder of the National Center for Economic Gardening (NCEG) and creator of “Economic Gardening\,” an entrepreneurial approach to economic development. Moderator: Lara Gale\, Economic Development Program Manager\, Taubman Center for State & Local Government. This session will be an interactive discussion of capitalism’ conundrum and the role of Economic Gardening- an entrepreneurial\, grow-your-own approach to economic development.  Economic Gardening is based in part on the science of complex adaptive systems\, systems theory and Stage 2 companies with a focus on commodity traps.  Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. Lunch will be provided. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. Speaker Bio: Chris Gibbons is the founder of the National Center for Economic Gardening (NCEG).  He is the creator of “Economic Gardening\,” an entrepreneurial approach to economic development.  The program\, created in Littleton CO in 1987\, is widely regarded as introducing the first entrepreneurial element into economic development.  It is a major strategy used in many economic development programs today. From the period 1990 to 2010 the number of jobs in Littleton doubled from 15\,000 to 30\,000 and sales tax revenues more than tripled from $6 to $21 million.  The city did not recruit one business during this period\, nor did it offer one cent in incentives or tax rebates. The NCEG was created in 2012 to assist communities across the country to start and operate Economic Gardening programs.       URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-economic-gardening-and-capitalisms-conundrum/ LOCATION:HYBRID T-520 NYE BC\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240318T235200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004012Z UID:15029-1711533600-1711539000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Property Rights and Innovation Dynamism: The Role of Women Inventors 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: Ruveyda Gozen\, Ph.D. – London School of Economics. Location: Online only. Please register in advance. Paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K5C4dMtp1toJ7AKAHnORAEZYgX5q84I5/view Abstract: How do stronger property rights for disadvantaged groups affect innovation? Dr. Ruveyda Gozen investigates the impact of strengthened property rights for women on U.S. innovation by analyzing the Married Women’s Property Acts\, which granted equal property rights to women starting in 1845 in New York State. She examines the universe of granted patents from 1790 until 1901\, exploiting the staggered adoption of the laws over time across states. The strengthening of women’s property rights led to a 39% increase in patenting activity among women in the long run\, with effects peaking about a decade after the laws were introduced. Importantly\, women’s innovations were not of lower quality (as measured by a novelty index based on patent text analysis)\, without generating negative effects on innovations by men. Therefore\, these findings suggest that there does not appear to be an equity and efficiency trade-off. Finally\, she shows that the main mechanism was through innovation incentives\, and higher human capital accumulation among women inventors rather than an increase in participation in STEM fields\, labor force participation\, or relieving financial frictions. Speaker Bio: Dr. Ruveyda Gozen is a research economist at the London School of Economics (LSE) at the Programme of Innovation and Diffusion (POID) directed by John Van Reenen. She is an applied microeconomist with a focus on economics of innovation\, growth\, entrepreneurship\, institutions\, inequality\, and technological progress. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-property-rights-and-innovation-dynamism-the-role-of-women-inventors/ LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240312T180600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175436Z UID:15003-1710928800-1710934200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Contracting Frictions\, Geography\, and Multinational Firms: Evidence from Mexico 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: Luis M. Espinoza Bardales\, Ph.D. candidate in Economics from University of Michigan Location: Online only. Please register in advance.Abstract: This paper explores how contracting frictions and geography influence the trade costs faced by multinationals’ affiliates located in Mexico relative to domestic firms. Luis documents two key facts. First\, distance to firm’s home countries influences firms’ sourcing patterns. Second\, sectors with a larger presence of foreign affiliates are more intensive in relationship-specific inputs. He develops a small open economy model with multiple sectors\, imperfect contracting\, input relationship-specificity\, global sourcing and multinational production. Luis computes a set of counterfactual equilibria to gauge the relative importance of contracting frictions\, trade costs\, and productivity in the price advantage of multinationals over domestic firms. He finds small median differences between foreign and domestic firms regarding inward trade and contracting costs\, with high variability across industries and home countries. \nAbout the Speaker: Luis Espinoza is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics from University of Michigan. He is also a former Growth Lab Fellow (2014-2016) and holds a MPAID (2014) degree from HKS. He will be joining the International Affairs faculty at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M this Fall. Luis’ research interest lies at the intersection of trade and development. His research focuses on economic development from a sectorial/macro perspective\, with an eye on potential lessons for policy. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-contracting-frictions-geography-and-multinational-firms-evidence-from-mexico/ LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240318T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240318T140000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20250303T201900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001621Z UID:14904-1710766800-1710770400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Faculty Webinar: Strategies for Inclusive Growth DESCRIPTION:Join Profs. Matt Andrews and Ricardo Hausmann 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.  Registration is required.  This free\, live webinar is a precursor to the upcoming Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education program\, Strategies for Inclusive Growth. The recording will be distributed to all registrants. This presentation does not qualify for a certificate. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/faculty-webinar-strategies-for-inclusive-growth/ LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Growth Lab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T123000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240208T015500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003933Z UID:15024-1709722800-1709728200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Modelling Technological Change in the Energy Transition 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: Bessie Noll\, Doctoral Researcher at ETH Zürich In this seminar\, Bessie  will walk through the motivation\, methods\, and results of  her research as well expand on the question of why certain technologies learn faster than others using innovation and technology complexity theory as explanatory factors. The presentation will conclude with thoughts on how this work may impact or inform larger climate models.  Location: HYBRID W-434 A.B. HKS (Harvard Community) / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. About the Speaker: Bessie Noll is a Postdoctoral researcher with the Energy and Technology Policy Group (EPG) at ETH Zürich. In September 2023\, she successfully defended her PhD\, presenting a dissertation that aims to enhance our comprehension of how public policy can accelerate transformative change in the road transport sector towards low-carbon technologies. In particular\, the thesis argues that policymakers need up-to-date\, quantitative\, approaches to evaluate and project dynamic technology competition and to assess prospective policy impacts on the transition. Her current research explores two distinct areas. The first focuses on improving the representation of technological innovation in Integrated Assessment Models\, looking specifically at technology complexity to understand why some technologies learn faster than others. The second focuses on the low-carbon transport transition in Africa\, assessing the role of battery electric versus synthetic fuel vehicles as options for decarbonizing passenger transport.  Paper: The effects of local interventions on global technological change through spillovers: A modeling framework and application to the road- freight sector Abstract To address global sustainability challenges\, (public) policy interventions are needed to induce or accelerate technological change. While most policy interventions occur on the local level\, their innovation effects can spill over to other jurisdictions\, potentially having global impact. These spillovers can increase or reduce the incentive for interventions. Lacking to date are computational models that capture these spillover dynamics. In this study\, we devise a conceptual and methodological approach to quantify ex ante the effects of local demand-side interventions on global competition between incumbent and novel technologies. We apply these frameworks to the case of commercial road-freight\, assessing global spillover effects due to different demand-pull interventions and shocks.  The presentation will walk through the motivation\, methods\, and results of this study\, and as well expand on the question of why certain technologies learn faster than others using innovation and technology complexity theory as explanatory factors. The presentation will conclude with thoughts on how this work may impact or inform larger climate models.    URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-modelling-technological-change-in-the-energy-transition/ CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T123000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240215T211000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003701Z UID:15010-1709204400-1709209800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Economic Complexity\, Regional Development\, and Smart Diversification: Evidence from Brazil 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.Speakers: João Romero and Gustavo Britto\, Professors at the Department of Economics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)   Location: HYBRID L-324 FAINSOD\, HKS / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.Paper Abstract.Following the increasing upsurge in the works that use economic complexity indicators (ECI) to devise smart diversification strategies\, this paper proposes a new method – Smart Diversification Score (SDS) – to be used by policymakers to rank promising activities for short\, medium and long-term diversification. After reporting the positive impact of regional complexity\, calculated using employment data\, on employment and GDP per capita growth for Brazilian regions\, the paper assesses the potential of SDS to increase ECI in the municipal level. Looking backwards (to data from 2007 and 2018)\, the paper finds that SDS can predict up to 39.4% of the diversification activities that happened in 1033 Brazilian cities that have increased their complexity. Looking forward\, the paper calculates the SDS for the city of Belo Horizonte\, suggesting a balanced portfolio of related and unrelated activities for diversification and estimates the potential gains to be obtained following different development paths. The main contribution of this paper is to conceive of a new method\, test its validity in the municipal level and exemplify its use for policy purposes. Gustavo Britto is a full-time professor at the Department of Economics\, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Awarded a PhD degree in Regional Growth\, Land Economy Department from the University of Cambridge in 2008. Vice-Director at the Center for Development and Regional Planning (Cedeplar-UFMG) (2018-2023)\, Editor of Nova Economia Journal (2018-2023)\, and a member of the board of Graduate Studies of the Postgraduate Programme in Economics at Cedeplar-UFMG (2014-2023). Researcher at the Center for Development and Regional Planning (Cedeplar). His main investigation theme is the multidimensional relationship between structural change and economic development over time and across the territory. Research results can be found in journals such as the Cambridge Journal of Economics\, Metroeconomica\, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics\, Scientometrics\, Journal of Cleaner Production\, Journal Post Keynesian Economics\, Journal of Political Economy\, PSL Quarterly Review\, and Cepal Review\, among others. General Coordinator of the DataViva project. Currently working as a visiting scholar at SOAS (University of London). João Romero is a full-time professor at the Department of Economics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Cambridge (2015)\, his PhD thesis was awarded the BRICS Economic Research Award in 2016\, promoted by the Exim Bank of India. He was also twice winner of the Brazilian National Confederation of Industry Award\, in 2009 and 2015. He was Assistant Editor of Nova Economia Journal between 2018 and 2023. He is currently the coordinator of the International Economic Relations undergraduate course at UFMG. He is a member of the Cambridge Center for Economic and Public Policy (CCEPP)\, coordinator of the Research Group on Public Policies and Development (GPPD)\, at the Center for Regional Development and Planning (Cedeplar)\, and Research Coordinator of the DataViva project. His research is focused on the areas of economic complexity\, regional development\, international trade\, and economic growth. He has published in journals such as World Development\, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics\, Cambridge Journal of Economics\, Metroeconomica\, Journal of Political Economy and Cepal Review\, among others. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-economic-complexity-regional-development-and-smart-diversification-evidence-from-brazil/ LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER W-102\, HKS / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T123000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240208T014000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003719Z UID:15012-1709118000-1709123400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Embedding Scientific Migrations 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: Dakota Murray\, Research Assistant Professor\, Northeastern University Location: HYBRID / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.Paper Abstract:  Human migration and mobility drives major societal phenomena including epidemics\, economies\, innovation\, and the diffusion of ideas. Although human mobility and migration have been heavily constrained by geographic distance throughout the history\, advances\, and globalization are making other factors such as language and culture increasingly more important. Advances in neural embedding models\, originally designed for natural language\, provide an opportunity to tame this complexity and open new avenues for the study of migration. Here\, we demonstrate the ability of the model word2vec to encode nuanced relationships between discrete locations from migration trajectories\, producing an accurate\, dense\, continuous\, and meaningful vector-space representation. The resulting representation provides a functional distance between locations\, as well as a “digital double” that can be distributed\, re-used\, and itself interrogated to understand the many dimensions of migration. We show that the unique power of word2vec to encode migration patterns stems from its mathematical equivalence with the gravity model of mobility. Focusing on the case of scientific migration\, we apply word2vec to a database of three million migration trajectories of scientists derived from the affiliations listed on their publication records. Using techniques that leverage its semantic structure\, we demonstrate that embeddings can learn the rich structure that underpins scientific migration\, such as cultural\, linguistic\, and prestige relationships at multiple levels of granularity. Our results provide a theoretical foundation and methodological framework for using neural embeddings to represent and understand migration both within and beyond science. About the Speaker:  Dakota Murray is a research assistant professor at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern Univeristy. Previously\, he worked as a Data Scientist with Digital Science to develop tools and deliver analysis to support decision making in funding agencies. He was also a postdoctoral research associate working at the Center for Complex Network Research with Albert-László Barabási. He received a Ph.D in Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington.   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-embedding-scientific-migrations/ LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER W-102\, HKS / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T123000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240208T011200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003532Z UID:14999-1708513200-1708518600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital and the Developing World 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: Jacob Moscona\, Harvard University Location: HYBRID WEXNER W-434 AB\, HKS / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.Paper Abstract: (Jacob Moscona\, Josh Lerner\, Junxi Liu & David Y. Yang) Global high-potential entrepreneurship was traditionally dominated by rich countries\, especially the US\, until the rise of China as a venture capital powerhouse. We explore the international ramifications of China’s rise\, using comprehensive data on global venture activities. We document three sets of findings. First\, as the Chinese venture industry rose in importance\, investment increased substantially in other emerging markets\, particularly in sectors dominated by Chinese companies. Using a broad set of country-level economic and social indicators\, we show that this effect was driven by country-sector pairs most similar to their counterparts in China. Second\, turning to mechanisms\, we show that the increase in venture investments in emerging economies was spurred by local investors and new firms whose business models more closely resembled those of their Chinese counterparts. The findings are not driven by Chinese investors\, by countries politically connected to China\, or by sectors prioritized by the Chinese government. Third\, we find that this growth in emerging-market investment had positive spillovers on sectors in which China was not a global leader and had positive city-level effects on both business formation and patenting. Taken together\, our findings suggest that developing countries benefited from the rise of Chinese entrepreneurship\, especially where Chinese businesses and technologies were most “appropriate” for local economic conditions. About the Speaker: Jacob Moscona is a Prize Fellow in Economics\, History\, and Politics at Harvard and a postdoctoral fellow at J-PAL at MIT. In 2024\, he will start as an Assistant Professor of Economics at MIT. Jacob’s research focuses on development economics\, environmental economics\, and the economics of innovation. He received his PhD from MIT in 2021 and AB from Harvard in 2016.   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-appropriate-entrepreneurship-the-rise-of-chinese-venture-capital-and-the-developing-world/ LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER W-434 AB\, HKS / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T120000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240213T193000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001613Z UID:14903-1708426800-1708430400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Faculty Webinar: Leading Green Growth 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 one-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. Please register in advance. The webinar will be recorded and distributed to all attendees. This presentation does not qualify for a certificate.  HKS Executive Education is offering a one-week on campus program\, Leading Green Growth: Economic Strategies for a Low-Carbon World\, in April 2024. Under the direction of faculty chairs Ricardo Hausmann and Daniel Schrag\, participants will gain a foundational understanding of decarbonization and its economic impact. Application deadline is February 26. The Growth Lab is researching how countries can leverage trends to develop green growth strategies. Our research involves understanding changes in technology\, patterns of demand\, and value chains for green industries. Learn more about our Green Growth research agenda.  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/faculty-webinar-leading-green-growth/ LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Growth Lab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T121500 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240206T030300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003836Z UID:15016-1707303600-1707308100@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Green Growth Models and National Decarbonization Capacity 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.Location: HYBRID Wexner G-02 at HKS / Zoom Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZtdpZP56QyOg8fOS1J0gHgSpeaker: Daniel Driscoll (Brown University) Abstract: This talk brings the study of growth models and climate change together under the assumption that the policy priority of economic growth will remain central. The relevant research question from a Growth Model perspective thus becomes ‘to what extent can existing Growth Models switch from carbon-based growth to green growth?’ To answer this question\, the presentation explores growth models and national decarbonization capacity from a number of comparative and international political economy perspectives. It starts with national energy systems and balance sheets and ends with international monetary and commodity flows. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-green-growth-models-and-national-decarbonization-capacity/ LOCATION:Location: HYBRID Wexner G-02 at HKS / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240201T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240201T140000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240112T224700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175436Z UID:14875-1706792400-1706796000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: How Can Wall Street Avoid Funding Dictators? 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: Marcos Buscaglia\, Economist\, Former Wall Street Analyst and Emerging Markets Expert Moderator: Javier Murcio\, Director\, Emerging Markets; Portfolio Manager and Senior Sovereign Analyst at Standish and ex-JP Morgan Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. Lunch will be provided. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. About the Speaker: Marcos Buscaglia has more than 30 years doing research on the economies of Emerging Market countries and advising Wall Street companies. He is also emerging as a leading voice on the topic of markets and democracy. He is the founder of Alberdi Partners\, a consultancy firm dedicated to political\, economic and market analysis of Latin American countries. Buscaglia was for five years chief Latin America economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York and ranked #1 in the Institutional Investor rankings in the categories Latin America economics and Argentina in 2015. He also served as chief economist for Latin America at Citibank in New York\, and as chief economist for the Southern Cone countries at Citibank\, based in Buenos Aires.   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-how-can-wall-street-avoid-funding-dictators/ LOCATION:HYBRID Democracy Lab\, HKS / Zoom CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T140000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240117T003200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250804T224132Z UID:14798-1706706000-1706709600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:2024 Summer Internship Informational Lunch DESCRIPTION:Each 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 2024 include work on the Growth Lab’s Azerbaijan\, Morocco\, Hermosillo\, and Wyoming projects.  \n We are hosting a pizza lunch on Wednesday\, January 31st at 12 pm to provide more information and answer any questions about this year’s internship opportunities. We look forward to seeing you there!  \n Note: The Growth Lab Summer Internship is separate from CID’s Global Internship Program. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/2024-summer-internship-informational-lunch/ LOCATION:Wexner 434 AB CATEGORIES:Growth Lab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T121500 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240126T022600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004731Z UID:15077-1706698800-1706703300@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:University-Industry Collaborations and the Burden of Knowledge: Evidence from the U.S. 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. Location: Online only Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UlEuxqQ5QTKINYHeR-xhhA Speaker: Federico Bignone (University of Warwick) Paper Abstract: (Coauthored with Russell Thomson) Research collaborations between universities and industry are an important channel of innovation. In this paper\, we provide a systematic overview of US university-industry collaborations\, drawing upon all US-based scientific publications from 1980 to 2013 in Web of Science\, matched to the relevant business characteristics in BvD Orbis. We find that university-industry collaborations increased from 2% to 6% of all indexed publications. A decrease in direct corporate involvement in scientific research accompanies this surge. Furthermore\, we show that this increase is influenced by factors related to the nature of science such as the burden of knowledge\, rather than companies’ commercial considerations. Specifically\, the likelihood of collaboration increases as the speed of scientific progress increases\, with differences by firm size. Bio: Federico Bignone is a postdoctoral researcher at Warwick Business School\, University of Warwick (UK). He recently earned his PhD in Economics from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) and the University of Bordeaux (France). His research primarily focuses on economics of innovation and science\, as well as corporate finance. Specifically\, his projects explore various aspects of the much-discussed decline in corporate science. He examines how the burden of knowledge may affect the likelihood of university-industry collaborations. Additionally\, he investigates whether corporate science has become increasingly more applied and whether initial public offerings (IPOs) positively impact companies’ scientific research. Recently\, he has been involved in a UK government-funded project on AI new ventures and interactions with the science base. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/university-industry-collaborations-and-the-burden-of-knowledge-evidence-from-the-u-s/ LOCATION:Online Only CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T123000 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20240122T202000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003852Z UID:15018-1706094000-1706099400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Industrial Policy in Developing Countries: Is There a Way to Pick Winners 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. In this seminar\, Tristan Reed will discuss his new research on the product space. Speaker Tristan Reed\, Applied economist at the World Bank’s Development Research Group Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BqIFp594RUWa1H7dl0MJRQ URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-industrial-policy-in-developing-countries-is-there-a-way-to-pick-winners/ LOCATION:HYBRID zoom / WEXNER W-G02 (Harvard Community) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T121500 DTSTAMP:20260412T155031 CREATED:20231124T214700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T230107Z UID:14998-1701255600-1701260100@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Anticipating Climate Change Across the United States\, with E. Rossi-Hansberg 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: Adrien Bilal – Harvard University Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ORfldxS0QwaTky5BhjVUsw Website: https://sites.google.com/site/adrienbilal/ Paper: NBER Working Paper 31323 -https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31323/w31323.pdf Abstract: We evaluate how anticipation and adaptation shape the aggregate and local costs of climate change. We develop a dynamic spatial model of the U.S. economy and its 3\,143 counties that features costly forward-looking migration and capital investment decisions. Recent methodological advances that leverage the ‘Master Equation’ representation of the economy make the model tractable. We estimate the county-level impact of severe storms and heat waves over the 20th century on local income\, population\, and investment. The estimated impact of storms matches that of capital depreciation shocks in the model\, while heat waves resemble combined amenity and productivity shocks. We then estimate migration and investment elasticities\, as well as the structural damage functions\, by matching these reduced-form results in our framework. Our findings show\, first\, that the impact of climate on capital depreciation magnifies the U.S. aggregate welfare costs of climate change twofold to nearly 5% in 2023 under a business-as-usual warming scenario. Second\, anticipation of future climate damages amplifies climate-induced worker and investment mobility\, as workers and capitalists foresee the slow build-up of climate change. Third\, migration reduces substantially the spatial variance in the welfare impact of climate change. Although both anticipation and migration are important for local impacts\, their effect on aggregate U.S. losses from climate change is small. Speaker Bio: Adrien Bilal is a macroeconomist with interests in labor and spatial economics. Adrien received his PhD in Economics from Princeton University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at the department of Economics at Harvard University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Becker-Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago.  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-anticipating-climate-change-across-the-united-states-with-e-rossi-hansberg/ LOCATION:HYBRID Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom CATEGORIES:Speaker Series END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR