Past Events

2023 Jan 30

Research Seminar: Academic Science and Corporate Innovation

10:15am to 11:30am
Location:
Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
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: Seungryul Ryan Shin, Post-Doctoral Researcher at Cornell University.

Abstract: This study examines how academic science shapes the dynamics of corporate innovation. An experiment that as-good-as-randomly exposes academic science to corporate inventors reveals that such exposure increases the corporate inventors’ science-based inventions...
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2023 Jan 23

Research Seminar: Author Location & Attention on Open Science Platforms / Evidence from COVID-19 Preprints

10:15am to 11:30am
Location:
Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
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: Megan MacGarvie, Associate Professor, Boston University/Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research

Abstract: Online platforms such as preprint servers have become an important way to disseminate new scientific knowledge prior to peer review. However, little is known about how attention to preprints may vary...
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2022 Dec 13

Programming + Pizza // Visualizing Economic Data with Metroverse & Viz Hub

5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location:
HKS Library Commons
**This event was originally scheduled for Oct. 25th**

Speakers: Annie White (Senior Product Manager), Steven Geofrey (Front-End Software Developer), Brendan Leonard (Back-End Developer and Data Specialist), and Nil Tuzcu (UX/UI & Data Visualization Designer) make up the Development & Design Team at the Growth Lab.

At this session of Programming + Pizza, Annie and her team will present on the design, development, data and product management that goes into Metroverse, ...
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2022 Dec 12

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

10:15am to 11:30am
Location:
Zoom (registration information below)
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: ...
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2022 Dec 05

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

10:15am to 11:30am
Location:
Zoom (registration information below)
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.

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2022 Dec 01

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

12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Wexner 434 AB, Zoom (registration information below)
The Growth Lab's Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.

Speaker: Andres Valenciano, John F. Kennedy Fellow, HKS MC/MPA '23

Moderator: Alejandro Rueda-Sanz...
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2022 Nov 28

Research Seminar: Electoral Turnovers

10:15am to 11:30am
Location:
Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.

Speaker: Vincent Pons, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School

Abstract: In most national elections, voters face a key choice between continuity and change. Electoral turnovers occur when the incumbent candidate or party fails to...
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2022 Nov 21

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

10:15am to 11:30am
Location:
Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.

Speaker: Gonzalo Huertas, Economist, International Monetary Fund

Abstract: I conduct interviews with 32 Central Bankers from Emerging Markets and present five unifying themes that explain their behavior when reacting to a U.S. monetary tightening. I then estimate the impulse response functions of their two main monetary tools, the policy rate...
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2022 Nov 14

Heterogeneous Trade Agreements: Evidence from Apparel Trade

10:15am to 11:30am
Location:
Zoom (registration information below)
The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.

Speaker: Dr. Raymond Robertson, Director of the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy, Professor, and Helen and Roy Ryu Chair in Economics and Government, the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M

Abstract: In this paper, we revisit and assess the heterogeneous effects of RTAs on trade flows. Using the...
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2022 Nov 08

Development Talk: Culture, Psychology and Economic Development

12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Rubenstein 414 AB / Zoom
The Growth Lab's Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.

Speaker: Joseph Henrich, Ruth Moore Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Moderator: ...
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Past Events

Research Seminar: Academic Science and Corporate Innovation

Location:

Research Seminar: Author Location & Attention on Open Science Platforms / Evidence from COVID-19 Preprints

Location:

Programming + Pizza // Visualizing Economic Data with Metroverse & Viz Hub

Location:

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

Location:

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

Location:

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

Location:

Research Seminar: Electoral Turnovers

Location:

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

Location:

Heterogeneous Trade Agreements: Evidence from Apparel Trade

Location:

Development Talk: Culture, Psychology and Economic Development

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