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| LaChaun Banks | Sherri Ann Charleston
March 29, 2021, Video: "Join the Ash Center; Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life; Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Harvard University; and Black Student Union at Harvard Kennedy School for a conversation with Heather McGhee, a leading voice in the national conversation on systemic racism and its consequences, and the author of the recently released book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We…
April 24, 2021, Videos: "Why does economics matter? Rebecca Henderson is one of 25 University Professors at Harvard, a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of both the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research explores the degree to which the private sector can play a major role in building a more sustainable economy. Rebecca sits on the boards of Idexx Laboratories and of…
| Joseph Aldy
April 22, 2021, Video: "On Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. E.T., Rep. Ro Khanna, Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Environment, will hold the Subcommittee’s first hearing of the Congress on Earth Day entitled, “The Role of Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Preventing Action on the Climate Crisis.”"
HKS Author - Joseph Aldy
| Gordon Hanson
May/June 2021, Opinion: "For decades, the promise of globalization has rested on a vision of a world in which goods, services, and capital would flow across borders as never before; whatever its other features and components, contemporary globalization has been primarily about trade and foreign investment. Today’s globalized economy has been shaped to a large extent by a series of major trade agreements that were sold as win-win propositions:…
| Christopher Malloy
May/June 2021, Case Study: "Sahan Kumara couldn’t believe what he was seeing online. Two hours earlier, a tsunami had hit Indonesia, sending a wall of water gushing through resorts, sweeping away villages, flooding fields, and killing thousands. Now the waves had struck the coast of his own island nation, causing similar devastation."…
| Kenneth Rogoff
April 21, 2021, Paper: "Faced with a global natural catastrophe, countries must spend to deal with the immediate crisis, and to reduce longer-term economic scarring. Sustained infrastructure and education spending can help counter headwinds to the long-term outlook. However, the fact that government borrowing rates are at extremely low levels does not imply that the very high debt, especially short-term borrowing, is a free lunch. Real borrowing…
April 21, 2021, Video: "The pandemic has had drastic implications across the globe. Still, as industrial countries return to a sense of normalcy thanks to vaccinations, the reality for many emerging and developing economies is bleak. Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist at the IMF will join the next event in our Rethinking Capitalism series to expand on these issues. Elias Papaioannou, co-Academic Director of the Wheeler Institute for Business and…
| Edward Glaeser
April 21, 2021, Video: "In this masterclass, titled 'The Economics of Cities' Edward Glaeser explores the economic history of cities and their principal industries, while, in turn, considering the trends that the current COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to in the current context as well."
Non-HKS Author - Edward Glaeser
| Dale Jorgenson
January 21, 2021, Paper: "In the twenty-first century the balance of world economic growth has shifted from the G7 industrialized economies, led by Europe, Japan, and the United States, to the emerging economies of Asia, especially China and India. While world growth will continue at a rapid pace, members of the G7 will grow more slowly than the world economy, while China and India will grow more rapidly. Growth in the advanced economies will…
| Paul Gompers
April 2021, Paper: "In this paper, we document the historically low rate of hiring of women in the venture capital sector. We find that the high-profile Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination trial had dramatic treatment effects. In difference-in-differences regressions, we find that the rate of hiring of female venture capitalists increased substantially after the trial and that the hiring was more pronounced in states that were…