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| Megan Greene
May 29, 2021, Video: "Megan Greene has been a leading voice in global macroeconomics on both sides of the Atlantic for the past 15 years. She was previously the Global Chief Economist at Manulife/John Hancock Asset Management, where she was responsible for forecasting global macro trends and providing analysis to support the firm’s investment teams around the world. Prior to working at Manulife, Megan ran her own London-based economics…
| Marc Melitz
June 14, 2021, Paper: "Two central insights from the Schumpeterian approach to innovation and growth are that the pace of innovation is endogenously determined by the expectation of future prots and that growth is inherently a process of creative destruction. As international trade is a key determinant of rm protability and survival, it is natural to expect it to play a key role in shaping both incentives to innovate and the rate of creative…
| Carmen Reinhart
June 14, 2021, Video: "The 2020-21 Arnold C. Harberger Lecture on Economic Development with Carmen Reinhart, Vice President & Chief Economist of the World Bank Group. June 14, 2021. Carmen M. Reinhart is the Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group. Assuming this role on June 15, 2020, Reinhart provides thought leadership for the institution at an unprecedented time of crisis. She also manages the Bank’s Development…
| Shawn Cole | Vikram Gandhi
June 16, 2021, Video: "Impact investing, and sustainable investing more broadly, has been making significant strides not only in capital markets and in the world of philanthropy, but in higher education as well. Increasing numbers of graduate and undergraduate schools, often led by intrepid pioneers located in business schools, are establishing courses that introduce students to the many aspects of the triple bottom line — from democratizing…
June 15, 2021, Video: "Rebecca Henderson teaches at the Harvard Business School, but she’s a vocal critic of “business as usual.” In fact, her scholarly research focuses on how we need to change capitalism in order to overcome the myriad of crises humanity is facing, and she recently published a book on the topic called “Reimagining Capitalism In A World On Fire.” Rebecca and I have some things in common, so it was a pleasure to speak with her…
| Lawrence H. Summers
June 18, 2021, Video: "Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said the Federal Reserve this week acknowledged the threat of an inflation outbreak is greater than it previously thought. “The Fed signaled that it recognized that we were in a different place than it expected,” Summers told Bloomberg Television’s “Wall Street Week” with David Westin. “That was an appropriate change, given the inflation reality.”"
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| Lawrence H. Summers
June 11, 2021, Video: "Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard economist Lawrence H. Summers discusses his concerns about an overheated post-pandemic economy leading to inflation and what he believes the White House and the Fed should do about it."
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| Lawrence H. Summers
June 11, 2021, Video: "Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Wall Street Week contributor, says that it's a fallacy to think that transient inflation means we cannot have persistent inflation. He points to the labor and housing markets as examples of persistent inflation. He joins David Westin on "Bloomberg Wall Street Week."
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| Rema Hanna | Matthew Andrews | Asim Khwaja | Karen Dynan
June 10, 2021, Video: "HKS Faculty Webcast Series: Using Data to Create Effective Policy in Uncertain Times. Hosted by Rema Hanna, featuring Matt Andrews, Asim I. Khwaja, and Karen Dynan." Watch Via HKS Executive Education
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| Glenn Cohen
June 9, 2021, Paper: "The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill, was signed into law by President Biden on March 11, 2021.1 Although the bill largely focused on the devastation related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ARPA is also poised to effectuate a momentous expansion of the…