2026 Winter Schedule:
Wednesdays at 12 noon - 1pm Eastern Time, Unless Noted.
February 4th - 1-2pm ET- Josh Lerner (Harvard) "Case Studies of the Emulation of Chinese Entrepreneurial Business Models " (with Junxi Liu, Jacob Moscona and David Yang)
February 11th - Pete Klenow (Stanford) "Misallocation versus Inequality " (with Chang-Tai Hsieh, Emmanuella Kyei Manu, Emma Rockall)
February 18th - Jaedo Choi (Texas) "From Adoption to Innovation: State-Dependent Technology Policy in Developing Countries" (with Younghun Shim)
February 25th - Yongseok Shin (WUSTL) "The Dynamics of Technology Transfer: Multinational Investment in China and Rising Global Competition" (with Jaedo Choi, George Cui and Younghun Shim)"
March 4th - 1-2pm ET- Seula Kim (Penn State) "Ideas and Firm Dynamics When It Takes Two to Tango " (with Jane Olmstead-Rumsey and Honghao Wang )
March 11th - Paolo Surico (LBS) "The Public Origins of American Innovation " (with Andrea Gazzani, Joseba Martinez, Filippo Natoli )
March 18th - Harun Alp (Fed Board) "Transformative and Subsistence Entrepreneurs: Origins and Impacts on Economic Growth " (with Ufuk Akcigit, Jeremy Pearce and Marta Prato)
March 25th - Kai-Jie Wu (Penn State) "The Rise of Specialized Firms" (with Lorenz Ekerdt)
April 1st - Hannah Rubinton (St. Louis Fed) "The Adoption of Non-Rival Inputs and Firm Scope" (with Xian Jiang)
April 8th - 1-2pm ET - Karthik Sastry (Princeton) "Public R&D Meets Economic Development: Embrapa and Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution " (with with Ariel Akerman, Jacob Moscona, and Heitor S. Pellegrina )
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