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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T110000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T110000
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T110000
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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
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