The Theme 1 workshop focused on the roles of firms, frictions, spillovers, and industrial policy in structural transformation and economic growth, with a particular interest in understanding the challenges for the poorest countries.
Programme
Thursday 3 September
15:00 Achieving Scale Collectively Tommaso Porzio (Columbia University) Recording
15:55 Reallocation of Capital Across Space: The case of place based Industrial Policy in India Tristan Reed (World Bank) Recording
17:15 Matching and Agglomeration: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Firm-to-Firm Trade Yuhei Miyauchi (Boston University) Recording
18:10 Concrete Thinking about Development Martina Kirchberger (Trinity College of Dublin) Recording
19:00 Breakout sessions
Friday 4 September
15:00 Cutting out the middleman: the structure of chains of intermediation Meredith Startz (Dartmouth College) Recording
15:55 Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China Martin Beraja (MIT) Recording
17:15 STEG Pathfinding Paper: Financial frictions, financial development, and macroeconomic development Joe Kaboski (CEPR & Notre Dame)
Respondents: Emily Breza (Harvard) and Juan Sanchez (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) Recording
18:20 Open Discussion on Research Theme
19:00 Breakout sessions