BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Growth Lab - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20240207T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T121500 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 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:20260412T195542 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:20260412T195542 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:20260412T195542 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:20260412T195542 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:20260412T195542 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231120T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231120T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20231120T200500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175436Z UID:14863-1700506800-1700512200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Compass DESCRIPTION:Do you seek to enrich your big-picture perspective on the most critical policy and leadership topics for our time? Join us for a Kennedy School tradition of Compass\, where Jason Furman\, Ricardo Hausmann\, Deb Hughes Hallett and Todd Rogers will share 3 big ideas that transformed their fields and discuss their implications for the world! Ricardo Hausmann will discuss “How not to talk to the Global South about decarbonization.” This TED-talk-style event is an opportunity for you to engage with the world-class expertise of our HKS faculty. A perfect way to deep-dive into the topics you are passionate about\, inquire our faculty and join the Compasslearning community that meets once a semester. When: Monday\, November 20 at 6 – 7:30 pm Location: JFK Forum RSVP: http://bit.ly/RegCompass  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/compass/ LOCATION:HKS JFK Forum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T123000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20231109T013700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004752Z UID:15080-1700047800-1700051400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Webinar: Why is South Africa Not Achieving Its Goals? DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab recently completed a two-year applied research project which diagnosed causes of South Africa’s economic challenges and and outlined a path forward. The project was a research collaboration centered with South Africa’s National Treasury and in coordination with the Centre for Development and Enterprise. Speakers:Ann Bernstein\, Executive Director\, Center for Development and EnterpriseRicardo Hausmann\, Director\, Growth Lab Please register in advance.  This event is sponsored by the Centre for Development and Enterprise in South Africa.  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/webinar-why-is-south-africa-not-achieving-its-goals/ LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Growth Lab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231113T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231113T121500 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20231107T205900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001711Z UID:14909-1699873200-1699877700@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Firms in Product Space: Adoption\, Growth and Competition 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: John Morrow\, Reader in Economics at King’s Business School Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.Paper Abstract: Which products are potentially produced together? Can any firm eventually supply any new demand? Using multi-product production patterns within and across firms\, we recover a continuous cost based distance between products and firms. Product distance implies a product adoption path\, with each rank of distance decreasing adoption frequency. When export demand for unproduced products induces domestic adoption\, closer firms supply them. Counterfactual production costs imply measures of Revenue Potential and Competitive Pressure. These predict firm sales growth\, scope growth and core focus. If all firms produced all products linked by co-production\, consumer welfare would increase by 20-30%. About the Speaker: John Morrow is a Reader in Economics at King’s Business School and is affiliated to the Centre for Economic Performance and Centre for Economic Policy Research. His main research studies firm responses to economic changes such as trade or industrial policies and the consequences for productivity and efficiency\, especially in developing countries. John completed a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a recipient of the FIW Young Economist Award and ETSG Chair Jacquemin Prize. John has taught at Kent State University\, London School of Economics\, University of Essex and Birkbeck College.   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/firms-in-product-space-adoption-growth-and-competition/ LOCATION:HYBRID Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231106T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231106T121500 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20231102T193100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004204Z UID:15040-1699268400-1699272900@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: The Growing Use of Economic Complexity in EU 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: Pierre-Alexandre Balland (Utrecht University & AI Toulouse Institute) In this hybrid seminar\, Pierre-Alexandre Balland will review the growing use of economic complexity within different sections of the European Commission\, EU member states\, and EU regions. He will then highlight existing limitations and blindspots that the field seriously needs to address. Finally\, Pierre-Alex will delve into new policy use cases that could benefit from a complexity angle in the near future. Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Paper Abstract: Economic complexity offers a powerful paradigm to understand key societal issues and challenges of our time. By focusing on the underlying structure of the economy and systemic interactions it offers new insights on growth\, technological change\, regional evolution\, or inequality. As a result\, policy makers around the world are increasingly using economic complexity heuristics and metrics to guide their decisions.  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-growing-use-of-economic-complexity-in-eu-policy/ LOCATION:HYBRID W434 A.B.\, HKS / Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231101T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231101T111500 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20231023T194600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175436Z UID:15026-1698832800-1698837300@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: New U.S. Industrial Innovation Policies 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: William B. Bonvillian\, Lecturer at MIT\, and Senior Director for special projects at MIT’s Office of Open Learning Despite longstanding opposition from mainstream economists and neoliberal perspectives to industrial policy\, the United States\, confronted by advanced technology competition from China\, climate change\, and a global pandemic\, adopted from 2020-2022 a series of major industrial policy programs. Although the U.S. Defense Department has long practiced industrial policy approaches\, and the U.S. has followed industrial economic policies in its agriculture\, transportation\, electric power and healthcare sectors\, the new programs focused on promoting technology innovation\, so can be labeled “industrial innovation policy.” The large scale of these efforts amounted to a new step for the U.S. in non-defense sectors. This talk will review six major examples of new U.S. industrial innovation policies. All involve federal government interventions into the post-research phases of innovation\, from development to prototyping\, testing\, demonstration\, and production.  Summary Paper Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. About the speaker: William B. Bonvillian is a Lecturer at MIT\, and Senior Director for special projects at MIT’s Office of Open Learning\, leading research projects on workforce education and technology issues. From 2006 until 2017\, he was director of MIT’s Washington Office\, supporting MIT’s longstanding role in science policy at the national level. He served as an advisor to MIT’s major cross-campus national policy initiatives on advanced manufacturing\, energy technology\, life science convergence and online education. He was an MIT representative to President Obama’s industry-university Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) which formed U.S. manufacturing policies in the 2011-2016 period. He teaches courses on innovation systems and science and technology policy at MIT in the and Science Technology and Society and Political Science Departments. Previously\, he worked for over 15 years on science and innovation issues as a senior advisor in the U.S. Senate\, and earlier was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-new-u-s-industrial-innovation-policies/ LOCATION:Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231030T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231030T150000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20231017T171400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T000734Z UID:14868-1698674400-1698678000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: Building Inclusive Cities 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: Carel Kleynhans\, CEO of Divercity Property Group Moderator: LaChaun Banks\, Ash Center Director for Equity and Inclusion Divercity Property Group is South Africa’s leading investor in well-located affordable housing precincts: Divercity invests in affordable rental housing in well-located urban precincts with scale. In this talk\, Carel Kleynhans will discuss specifically what Divercity does in South Africa and why they think that a new vision for urban development that is scalable and commercially viable can really be an instrumental part of addressing  any one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals or any other developmental outcome.  Location: HYBRID W434 A.B\, HKS / Zoom 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. Refreshments will be provided. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-building-inclusive-cities/ LOCATION:HYBRID W434 A.B.\, HKS / Zoom CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T130000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20231016T230300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175436Z UID:14962-1698148800-1698152400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Navigating Crisis and Leading Change in Moldova with Former Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita 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: Natalia Gavrilita\, Former Prime Minister of Moldova Moderator: Karen Donfried\, Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs 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. \nAbout the Speaker:  Natalia Gavrilița is a member of the Supervisory Board of the National Bank of Moldova\, as well as member of the ECFR Board. Natalia Gavrilița served as the 15th Prime Minister of Moldova between August 2021 and February 2023. She led the Government through multiple overlapping crises caused by the war in neighbouring Ukraine\, while also advancing ambitious anti-corruption\, economic\, and governance reforms. During her time in office\, Moldova received the largest influx of Ukrainian refugees of any European country\, managed to diversify its energy market away from Russian gas\, and became a candidate country to the European Union. Gavrilița has had a long history in economics and politics. She served as finance minister from June 2019 to November 2019 when President Maia Sandu was Prime Minister. Earlier in her career\, she was Managing Director at the London-based Global Innovation Fund\, a hybrid investment fund supporting social innovation in developing countries. She has also worked within the Ministry of Education\, Ministry of Economy and for Oxford Policy Management. Throughout her career\, she has worked in a number of countries across Africa\, Central and South Asia. Gavrilița graduated from Moldova State University with a bachelor’s degree in International Law and also earned a master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/navigating-crisis-and-leading-change-in-moldova-with-former-prime-minister-natalia-gavrilita/ LOCATION:HYBRID T520\, Allison Dining Room\, HKS / Zoom CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T190000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20231016T195900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175436Z UID:15073-1698084000-1698087600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:The Wild\, Wild West: What Can We Learn From The Cowboy State? 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: Gov. Mark Gordon (R-Wyoming) Governor Gordon serves as the current chair of the Western Governors’ Association\, which includes 19 western states and three U.S. territories in the Pacific region\, working across a range of policy issues to advance western priorities in a bipartisan way. Governor Gordon’s initiative as WGA Chair is entitled “Decarbonizing the West\,” and this initiative follows in a tradition of initiatives focused on energy opportunities\, effective land and water management\, and reimagining the rural west. This discussion is co-sponsored by the Growth Lab and its Pathways to Prosperity research engagement with the State of Wyoming. The conversation is expected to touch upon numerous challenges and opportunities facing Wyoming and western states. Moderator: Jeff Liebman\, Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government Please register if you would like the possibility of attending the Forum in person. If a seat is unavailable or you will not be attending in person\, viewers can stream the event live via the IOP’s YouTube page. You do not need to register for virtual attendance. About the speaker: \nMark Gordon was elected Wyoming’s 33rd Governor in 2018 and is now serving in his second term. In 2022\, Governor Gordon received 79% of the vote\, the largest margin of victory of any gubernatorial candidate in Wyoming’s history and the largest vote margin among governors elected in that year. Having successfully led Wyoming through some historically difficult times including the COVID-19 pandemic\, Governor Gordon is spearheading efforts to diversify Wyoming’s economy and continue to set Wyoming on a sustainable fiscal path — which he helped to strengthen as Wyoming State Treasurer from October 2012 to January 2019. He and his wife\, Jennie\, are dedicated to making Wyoming the best place in the nation to raise a family. Having grown up on a family ranch in Kaycee\, Wyoming\, worked in the oil and gas industry\, and ran several businesses spanning ranching\, outdoor recreation\, and tourism\, Governor Gordon is acutely aware of the challenge of global climate change and has been outspoken about the “climate opportunity” in Wyoming and across the West. He promotes an all-of-the-above energy strategy\, as Wyoming is a leader in coal\, wind\, oil\, gas and uranium production. At a recent Conservative Climate Summit\, Governor Gordon was quoted as saying\,  “As a mountaineer\, I know that glaciers are disappearing. As a rancher\, I can see what’s happening to our farms. As someone who cares about the world for our future\, as a conservative\, I feel very strongly that this country needs to get off its butt and do so with honesty and a respect for what’s happening.” URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/the-wild-wild-west-what-can-we-learn-from-the-cowboy-state/ LOCATION:JFK Jr. Forum / YouTube CATEGORIES:Development Talks,Growth Lab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20231007T013200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003451Z UID:14994-1697018400-1697023800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Dancing With the Stars -Innovations through Interactions 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 hybrid seminar\, Santiago Caicedo\, an Associate Professor at the Economics Department and Finance Group at Northeastern University will discuss his research on innovation\, which uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers and patents. Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. Paper Abstract: An inventor’s own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with and learning from others. This paper uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers and patents. We document key empirical facts on inventors’ productivity over the life cycle\, inventors’ research teams\, and interactions with other inventors. Among others\, most patents are the result of collaborative work. Inter- actions with better inventors are very strongly correlated with higher subsequent productivity. These facts motivate the main ingredients of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model\, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of inventors using inventor knowledge. The evolution of an inventor’s knowledge is explained through the lens of a diffusion model in which inventors can learn in two ways: By interacting with others at an endogenously chosen rate; and from an external\, age-dependent source that captures alternative learning channels\, such as learning-by-doing. About the Speaker: Santiago Caicedo is an Associate Professor at the Economics Department and Finance Group at Northeastern University. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. His research connects microdata with economic theory to study social interactions\, human capital formation\, economic growth\, and innovation. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-dancing-with-the-stars-innovations-through-interactions/ LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS (Harvard Community) & Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20230928T191800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175436Z UID:15025-1696413600-1696419000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Money\, Time\, and Grant Design DESCRIPTION: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: Wei Yang Tham is a Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and Harvard Business SchoolAbstract: The design of research grants might be a useful tool for incentivizing more socially valuable science. To better understand the value of grant design as a policy instrument\, we conduct two sets of thought experiments in a nationally representative survey of academic researchers. First\, we test whether grants with randomized attributes induce different research strategies. Longer grants increase researchers’ willingness to take risks\, but only amongst tenured professors\, suggesting that job security and grant duration are complementary incentives. Larger grants increase researchers’ willingness to expand ongoing projects\, while smaller grants increase researchers’ focus on starting new projects. In our second experiment\, we estimate researchers’ willingness to trade off grant size and duration. We find that researchers are relatively unwilling to trade off the amount of funding a grant provides in order to extend the duration of the grant — more money is much more valuable than more time. Whether attending in-person or online\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating is available on a first-come\, first-served basis. Zoom attendance is open to the public. \nAbout the speaker: Wei Yang Tham is a Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and Harvard Business School. He completed his PhD in Economics at Ohio State University in 2019. Dr. Tham studies innovation and knowledge production in the context of science. His recent work includes eliciting researchers’ preferences and responses to grant design\, studying how funding delays affect the movement of human capital across sectors and borders\, and estimating the knowledge production function to better understand the optimal distribution of resources in research. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-money-time-and-grant-design/ LOCATION:Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20230921T164900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001801Z UID:14913-1695808800-1695814200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Global and Regional Green Steel Transition: From Resource Potential to Supply Chain Re-configuration DESCRIPTION: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.Speakers:Alli Devlin is a DPhil in Engineering Science Candidate at the University of Oxford.Aidong Yang is a Professor of Engineering Science and a Fellow of Green Templeton College\, Oxford.Today’s steel industry is one of the top industrial emitters\, responsible for ~8% of global carbon emissions. Decarbonising steelmaking is thus attracting significant attention of industrial players and policymakers\, with the green transition already gaining momentum in some countries (e.g.\, Sweden)\, although most steel production is still deeply reliant on fossil fuels. This transition will be a huge undertaking\, with great challenges in resource\, technology\, and economics to overcome. In this seminar\, the authors will focus on the physical aspects of green steelmaking\, sharing recent and ongoing mathematical modelling work on (1) understanding global resource potential for deploying green steel facilities\, particularly addressing the availability of renewable energy and suitable iron ore\, and (2) exploring potentially favourable supply chain (re-) configurations at the regional scale\, taking into account a wide range of technological options and their geographical allocation. The results highlight key opportunities and challenges from technical perspectives\, which will hopefully provide useful input to wider discussions about the green steel transition involving economics\, policies and development agendas. This seminar is online only. Please register in advance.  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/global-and-regional-green-steel-transition-from-resource-potential-to-supply-chain-re-configuration/ LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T180000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20240910T213100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001741Z UID:14911-1695312000-1695319200@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\, research fellows\, and staff. RSVP is required. Refreshments will be served.  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/get-to-know-the-growth-lab-research-and-student-engagement-showcase-2/ LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse CATEGORIES:Growth Lab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T111500 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20230914T182800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001652Z UID:14907-1695204000-1695208500@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technological Progress During the British Industrial Revolution DESCRIPTION: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. This session is online only. Please register in advance.  In this seminar\, Bruno Caprettini will discuss new data and present new evidence on the effects of labor scarcity on the adoption of labor-saving technology in industrializing England. Where the British armed forces recruited heavily\, more machines that economized on labor were adopted. For purposes of identification\, we focus on naval recruitment. Using warships’ ease of access to coastal locations as an instrument\, exogenous shocks to labor scarcity led to technology adoption. The same shocks are only weakly associated with the adoption of non-labor saving technologies. Importantly\, there is also a synergy between skill abundance and labor scarcity boosting technology adoption. Where labor shortages led to labor-saving machine adoption\, technology afterwards improved more rapidly. About the Speaker: Bruno Caprettini is Assistant Professor at the University of St Gallen\, where he is affiliated with the Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW). He holds a PhD from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). He is interested in the determinants of long-term growth\, both economic and political. Some of his work appeared on AER\, QJE and AER-Insights.   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/fighting-for-growth-labor-scarcity-and-technological-progress-during-the-british-industrial-revolution/ LOCATION:Online Only CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T111500 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20230906T182500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004210Z UID:15041-1694599200-1694603700@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: The Role of Green & Non-Green Relatedness in the Development of New Green Specialization in Argentinean Provinces 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. Register for the session. In this Research Seminar\, Andrea Belmartino will analyze the role of relatedness in developing new green specialisations for the Argentinean provinces between 2008-2019. Even though the global demand for green products creates development opportunities\, whether this applies to emerging economies is still under analysis. Therefore\, exploring how to leverage available capacities to facilitate the green transition is worthwhile. Her study draws on indices that capture knowledge bases to achieve this goal. Results show that developing a new green specialisation is positively related to productive capabilities\, proxied by relatedness density (green and non-green). In addition\, there the path dependent process benefits more wealthier provinces. About the Speaker: Andrea Belmartino is a PhD fellow in Urban Studies and Regional Science at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in L’Aquila (Italy). She holds a MA in Economics from Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina). She was a research assistant at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina). Her current research interests are related to regional capabilities to foster the green transition. In addition\, she is especially interested in the sustainability challenges and opportunities for Latin American economies. Since 2023\, she is co-coordinating the Regional Studies Association’s Research Network “Knowledge\, Innovation and Regional Development in South America (KIRDSA)” URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-role-of-green-non-green-relatedness-in-the-development-of-new-green-specialization-in-argentinean-provinces/ LOCATION:Online Only CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T131500 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20230830T013600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175435Z UID:14866-1694174400-1694178900@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: A Conversation with Indermit Gill\, Chief Economist of the World Bank 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: Indermit Gill\, Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics Moderator: Dany Bahar\, Associate Professor\, Brown University’s Watson Institute; Senior Research Fellow\, Growth Lab 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. \nAbout the speaker: Indermit Gill is Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. He brings to the role a broad combination of leadership\, expertise\, and practical experience working with governments on macroeconomic imbalances\, growth\, poverty\, institutions\, conflict\, and climate change. Before starting this position on September 1\, 2022\, Gill served as the World Bank’s Vice President for Equitable Growth\, Finance\, and Institutions\, where he played a key role in shaping the Bank’s response to the extraordinary series of shocks that have hit developing economies since 2020. Between 2016 and 2021\, he was a professor of public policy at Duke University and non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Global Economy and Development program. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-a-conversation-with-indermit-gill-chief-economist-of-the-world-bank/ LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse / Zoom (registration info below) CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230515T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230515T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20230510T211600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003728Z UID:15013-1684146600-1684150200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Exploration and Exploitation in US Technological Change DESCRIPTION: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. Location: Zoom Please register in advance. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. About the Seminar: How do firms and inventors move through knowledge space as they develop their innovations? In this seminar\, Vasco M. Carvalho proposes a method for tracking patterns of exploration and exploitation in patenting behaviour in the US for the period since 1920. The exploration measure is constructed from the text of patents and involves the use of Bayesian Surprise to measure how different current patent-based innovations are from existing portfolios. Results indicate that there are distinct life-cycle patterns to firm and inventor exploration. Furthermore\, exploration activity is more geographically concentrated than general patenting\, but this concentration is centered outside the main hubs of patenting. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-exploration-and-exploitation-in-us-technological-change/ LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20230426T214200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004037Z UID:15032-1682936100-1682940600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Self-Employment within the Firm DESCRIPTION: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. Location: Online only/Zoom Please register in advance. Abstract: In this seminar\, Alessandra Peter\, Assistant Professor of Economics at NYU will share her research with Vittorio Bassi\, J. H. Lee\, Tommaso Porzio\, Ritwika Sen\, and Esau Tugume on the internal organization of firms in developing countries and how it affects their productivity and optimal size. They collected detailed time use data for 1\,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda and document limited within-firm labor specialization. Even in relatively large firms\, entrepreneurs and their employees work on similar tasks. As such\, firms resemble a collection of self-employed individuals who share a production location. To interpret the empirical evidence\, they develop an equilibrium model of task assignment\, firm size\, and occupational choice. They find that barriers to labor specialization generate decreasing returns to scale at the firm level\, which reduces the returns to entrepreneurial ability and keeps firms small in equilibrium. Given the internal organization of firms we document\, benefits from alleviating any other frictions that constrain firm growth are muted. About the speaker: Alessandra Peter is an assistant professor of Economics at NYU\, with a focus on Macroeconomics and Development. Her research analyzes constraints and barriers to firm growth in low-income countries as well as the effect of imperfect competition across firms on consumers in the United States. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-self-employment-within-the-firm/ LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230424T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230424T113000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20230420T200600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004020Z UID:15030-1682331300-1682335800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Regulation by Reputation? Intermediaries\, Labor Abuses & International Migration DESCRIPTION: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. Please register in advance. Speaker: Nilesh Fernando\, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame About the Seminar: Migrant workers and employers rely on intermediaries to facilitate labor market placements. If information frictions obscure their reputation\, however\, intermediaries may under-invest in placement quality. Using data on over 1.5 million Sri Lankan migrants to the Gulf region\, Nilesh Fernando will examine the effects of an intermediary rating program that publicly revealed ratings two years after it was announced. Prior to the ratings being revealed\, eligible under-performing agencies invest in the rating criteria and place migrants with less abusive employers who pay higher salaries. Results suggest that the threat of quality revelation induced agencies to prospectively screen employers.   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-regulation-by-reputation-intermediaries-labor-abuses-international-migration/ LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T133000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20230407T183300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001852Z UID:14915-1681992000-1681997400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Green Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Inter-American Development Bank's Vision DESCRIPTION:Decarbonization will transform global production and trade patterns so radically that new growth opportunities are bound to arise for Latin America and the Caribbean. The panel will discuss those opportunities considering the Inter-American Development Bank’s vision for the energy transition in the region. Speakers: Ricardo Hausmann\, Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy\, Director of the Harvard Growth Lab\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolLenin H. Balza\, Economist in the Infrastructure and Energy Sector of Inter-American Development BankAraceli Clavijo\, Researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council | conicet · GEISA (Grupo de Estudios e Investigaciones Socio Ambientales)Moderated by: José Ignacio Hernandez\, Visiting Fellow\, Harvard Growth Lab\, Harvard Kennedy School This event is hybrid. To register for this in-person event\, click here. To register for the virtual session\, click here. Presented in collaboration with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies\, the Harvard University Center for the Environment\, and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/green-growth-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-the-inter-american-development-banks-vision/ LOCATION:S216 Room\, CGIS South / Zoom CATEGORIES:Growth Lab END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T170000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20230407T213000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175435Z UID:14881-1681920000-1681923600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: The Political Economy of the Postwar Reconstruction of Ukraine DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s “Development Talks” is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in economic development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.Speaker: Vladyslav Rashkovan\, Alternate Executive Director\, International Monetary FundModerator: Konstantin Usov\, Acting Deputy Mayor of Kyiv\, HKS MC/MPA 2023 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. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. \nAbout the speaker: Vladyslav Rashkovan became a member of the International Monetary Fund Executive Board in February 2017. As an Alternate Executive Director\, Vladyslav represents Ukraine and 15 other European countries. Previously\, Vladyslav had a prominent banking career\, serving as a Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ukraine and being responsible for the banking sector reforms and central bank transformation. Before joining the NBU in 2014\, Vladyslav occupied the position of Chief Financial Officer of UniCredit Bank in Ukraine\, also being engaged in the leadership of the Group turnaround projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine\, Vladyslav stands at the center of many international projects to provide financial support to Ukraine and plan its post-war reconstruction and modernization. He also serves as a member of the International Advisory Panel for the National Recovery Council. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-the-political-economy-of-the-postwar-reconstruction-of-ukraine/ LOCATION:Nye A\, Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T130000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20230406T235200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175435Z UID:14877-1681819200-1681822800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: Investment in the Energy Transition / Global and Domestic Dimensions DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s “Development Talks” is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in economic development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. Speaker: Suman Bery\, Vice Chairperson\, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog Moderator: Akshay Mathur\, Edward S. Mason Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School Opening remarks: Ricardo Hausmann\, Director\, Growth Lab\, and Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy\, HKS 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. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. Boxed lunch will be provided at the end of the seminar.  \nAbout the speaker: Mr. Suman Bery is currently Vice Chairperson\, NITI Aayog\, in the rank and status of a Cabinet Minister. An experienced policy economist and research administrator\, Mr. Bery took over as NITI Aayog Vice Chairperson on May 1\, 2022. At the time of his appointment\, Mr. Bery was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research\, New Delhi; a Global Fellow in the Asia Programme of the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington D.C.; and a non-resident fellow at Bruegel\, an economic policy research institution in Brussels. He was also a member of the Board of the Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation\, New Delhi.From early 2012 till mid-2016\, Mr. Bery was Royal Dutch Shell’s global Chief Economist based in The Hague. In this capacity\, he advised the board and management on global economic and political developments. He was also part of the senior leadership of Shell’s global scenarios group. During his time at Shell\, he led a collaborative project with Indian think tanks (later published) to apply scenario modeling to India’s energy sector. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-investment-in-the-energy-transition-global-and-domestic-dimensions/ LOCATION:L-230 Gundle Family Classroom / Zoom CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T131500 DTSTAMP:20260412T195542 CREATED:20230404T000600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175434Z UID:14872-1681732800-1681737300@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: Economic Policymaking in a World of Deep Disorder DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s “Development Talks” is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in economic development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.Speaker: Mamo Mihretu\, Governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia\, HKS MPA 2009Moderator: Pablo Andrés Neumeyer\, Professor of Economics\, Universidad Torcuato Di TellaWhether 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. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. Lunch will be provided. \nAbout the speaker: Mamo E. Mihretu is the 10th Governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE). As the central bank\, the primary objective of NBE is to maintain price stability\, health and proper functioning of the financial services industry. Before he was appointed as the Governor of NBE\, Mr. Mihretu served as the founding CEO of the Ethiopian Investment Holdings\, the strategic investment arm of the Government of Ethiopia. EIH manages all key commercial companies of the Government of Ethiopia\, such as Ethiopian Airlines and Ethio Telecom. Mr. Mihretu is a member of Ethiopia’s Macroeconomic Council\, which is the body that steers economic policy and strategic decisions.  Mr. Mihretu obtained a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School. He also holds a post-graduate degree in Trade and Investment from the Universities of Pretoria and Amsterdam. He was a gold medalist when he graduated from Addis Ababa University\, School of Law. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-economic-policymaking-in-a-world-of-deep-disorder/ LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse / Zoom (registration info below) CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T130000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195543 CREATED:20230330T183500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175434Z UID:14874-1681387200-1681390800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Development Talk: Greening Economic Development / What Does It Take? DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s “Development Talks” is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in economic development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. Speaker: Amir Lebdioui\, Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of Development\, SOAS University of London Moderator: Ketan Ahuja\, Research Fellow\, Growth Lab What does it take to align economic development with ecological sustainability? Is industrial development still the optimal pathway to poverty reduction? What does a climate-smart industrial policy look like? Why are the factors of success in the implementing of green industrial policy for latecomers? What does an economic development agenda look like for biodiverse nations? Drawing on recent research and policy work\, this talk will address how governments can cope with the changing optimal pathways to economic development\, and explain the type of joined-up policy approach needed to use the decarbonization agenda as a lever to diversify economies\, leave the commodity dependence trap behind\, and increasing macroeconomic resilience. 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. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. Lunch will be provided. \nAbout the speaker: Dr. Amir Lebdioui is an Algerian development economist and lecturer in the Political Economy of Development at SOAS\, University of London. Before joining SOAS\, Amir was based at the London School of Economics (LSE) where he led the Canning House Research Forum\, a research and policy engagement program on the Future of Trade in Latin America. His research has focused on the economic diversification of resource-dependent nations\, low carbon innovation\, biodiversity-based innovation\, and industrialization in the context of climate change. Amir also regularly advises governments and international institutions on industrial policy strategies. He serves on the advisory council of the Natural Resource Governance Institute\, as member of the African Climate Foundation (ACF) and as a non-resident fellow of the Africa Policy Research Institute. He holds an MPhil and PhD in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-greening-economic-development-what-does-it-take/ LOCATION:Bell Hall (B-500) / Zoom (registration information below) CATEGORIES:Development Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T233000 DTSTAMP:20260412T195543 CREATED:20230405T203900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004029Z UID:15031-1681121700-1681169400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Robot Adoption\, Organizational Capital and the Productivity Paradox DESCRIPTION: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.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. The Zoom webinar is open to the public.Speaker: Rodimiro Rodrigo\, Assistant Professor at George Washington University School of Business.Abstract: Major technological changes have come with an adjustment period of stagnant productivity before the economy operates at its full potential. The mechanism of this adoption process is still not well understood. In this seminar\, Rodimiro Rodrigo will present his research on how productivity increases with a five-year lag after adopting industrial robots in Brazilian local labor markets. Combining employer-employee matched data with a novel measure of robot adoption\, he provides evidence of establishment-level labor reorganization and organizational capital depreciation induced by the automation process. He examines a model that highlights the role of organizational costs accompanying the adoption of new technologies\, illustrating its usefulness by using it to characterize the implications of the “innovator’s dilemma.” URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-robot-adoption-organizational-capital-and-the-productivity-paradox/ LOCATION:Weil Town Hall\, Belfer\, HKS/Zoom CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR