Tuesday, 1pm (GMT), EBRD HQ, London
The Office of the Chief Economist at the EBRD organizes the OCE Research Seminars in Economics & Finance. We invite top researchers from around the world to present their work in a one-hour academic format. The seminar is open to all EBRD staff as well as external researchers. The seminars will also be streamed online.
Contacts: if you want to present at or attend our weekly seminar series, please email us at loiaconf@ebrd.com (Francesco), coellif@ebrd.com (Federica) or benvenie@ebrd.com (Elia)
Upcoming seminar
29/09/2026
Ebehi Iyoha (Harvard Business School)
"Production Network Spillovers from EU Funded R&D Grants"
Abstract
Firms are embedded in production networks, so the returns to innovation policy may extend beyond direct recipients. We trace upstream propagation of R&D grants using administrative data from Croatia’s €225 million program and records covering the universe of firm-to-firm transactions. Grants raise recipients’ revenue, employment, and capital, and these gains transmit persistently to pre-existing suppliers. Spillovers extend well beyond local ties, accrue disproportionately to smaller and financially constrained suppliers, and are amplified by supplier, not recipient, network centrality. Supplier responses raise the total employment effect to roughly three to four times the direct effect. Recipient-only evaluations substantially understate the returns to innovation policy.
Schedule for 2026
03/02/26, Claude Raisaro (Geneva Graduate Institute): "Hidden Discrimination in Frictional Labor Markets"
03/03/26, Feodora Teti (Ifo and European Central Bank): "Missing Tariffs"
14/04/26, Francesco D’Acunto (Georgetown University): "Subjective Expectations and Financial Intermediation"
05/05/26, Edoardo Teso (Bocconi University): "State Capacity as an Organizational Problem"
19/05/26, Andrey Tkachenko (Nazarbayev University): "Language Affinity, Russian Media and Sanctions Evasion"
30/06/2026, Pauline Grosjean (UNSW Sydney): "HeforShe: Bargaining Power, Parental Beliefs, and Parental Speech Investments"
29/09/2026, Ebehi Iyoha: "Production Network Spillovers from EU Funded R&D Grants" (Harvard Business School)
13/10/26, Marta Santamaria (Warwick)
3/11/2026, Ieda Matavelli (Monash)
1/12/26, Christoph Albert (University of Turin & Collegio Carlo Alberto)
8/12/26, Martin Aragonenses (INSEAD)
Organizers: Francesco Loiacono, Federica Coelli, Elia Benveniste