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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
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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
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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
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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/
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CATEGORIES:Growth Lab
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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/
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