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Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP)

Lunch on Economic Policy (LEP) - formerly Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) and Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) - is a seminar for invited faculty to discuss current issues in international economics. The group regularly hosts guests, typically professors or foreign trade ministers, who spur discussions by delivering informal presentations.

Participation is by invitation only.

The seminar meets weekly on Mondays from 1:00 - 2:30 PM.

Event archive: 2006-2007 series, 2005-2006 series

Spring 2008

4 February 2008: Pol Antras, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
11 February 2008: World Economic Forum Mexico Brainstorming Session
18 February 2008: NO SEMINAR (President's Day)
25 February 2008: Maurice Kugler, Department of Economics, University of Southampton (UK); Growth Lab Fellow, CID, Harvard University
3 March 2008: Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School
10 March 2008: Matt Andrews, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
17 March 2008: Filipe Campante, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
24 February 2008: NO SEMINAR (Spring Break)
31 March 2008: Manmohan S. Kumar, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University and Visiting Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
7 April 2008: Rafael DiTella, Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
14 April 2008: Speaker TBA
21 April 2008: Eric Verhoogen, Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia University
28 April 2008: Asim Khwaja, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Fall 2007

10 September 2007: "Forward Linkages and Structural Transformation" - Bailey Klinger, Doctoral Candidate in Public policy at KSG and CID Fellow
17 September 2007: Ricardo Hausmann, Director, CID and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, KSG
1 October 2007: Kristin Forbes, Associate Professor Sloan School of Management, MIT
10 October 2007: Title and Speaker TBA
15 October 2007: David Dollar, Country Director for China and Mongolia, World Bank
22 October 2007: "Blue-Collar Blues: Is Trade to Blame?" - Robert Lawrence, Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment, KSG
29 October 2007: "The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela�s Maisanta" - Francisco Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Economics and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University
5 November 2007: Federico Sturzenegger, Visiting Professor of Public Policy, KSG & Faculty Associate, CID, Harvard University
12 November 2007: NO SEMINAR (Veterans Day)
19 November 2007: Ricardo Hausmann, Director, CID and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, KSG
26 November 2007: Roberto Rigobon, Associate Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT
3 December 2007: Maurice Kugler, Department of Economics, University of Southampton (UK); Growth Lab Fellow, CID, Harvard University
10 December 2007: Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, KSG and Faculty Associate, CID, Harvard University

Spring 2007

12 February 2007: "Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment" - Laura Alfaro, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and Andrew Charlton, Research Economist, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
26 February 2007: "Persistent Appreciations and Overshooting: A Normative Analysis" - Ricardo Caballero, Ford International Professor of Economics, MIT
5 March 2007: "Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market" - Murat Iyigun, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Colorado and Growth Lab Fellow, CID
12 March 2007: "Crime and Punishment in the American Dream" - Rafael Di Tella, Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
19 March 2007: "Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia" - James Robinson, Professor of Government, Harvard University and The Institute of Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
2 April 2007: "Product Space, Product Quality, and the Emergence of New Export Activities" - Ernesto Stein, Lead Research Economist, Inter-American Development Bank; Growth Fellow, CID, Harvard University
9 April 2007: "Contracts and Technology Adoption" - Elhanan Helpman, Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Department of Economics, Harvard University
16 April 2007: "The Damage from Clean Floats: From a Primarily Inflation Focused Monetary Policy" - Robin Pope, Senior Researcher, Bonn University, Germany
23 April 2007: "Plant Scale, Quality Differentiation and Exports" - Maurice Kugler, Department of Economics, University of Southampton (UK); Growth Lab Fellow, CID, Harvard University

Fall 2006

11 September 2006: "The Topology of the Product Space: Implications for Structural Transformation and Convergence" - C�sar Hidalgo, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Notre Dame
18 September 2006: "International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship" - Laura Alfaro, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
25 September 2006: "Fear of Floating or Fear of Sinking?" - Federico Sturzenegger, Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
2 October 2006: "Growth Collapses" - Francisco Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Economics and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University
16 October 2006: "Governance Reform: Bridging Monitoring and Action" - Brian Levy, Advisor, Public Sector Governance, World Bank
23 October 2006: "Resource-Curse in Reverse: The Coffee Crisis and Armed Conflict in Colombia" - Oeindrila Dube, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, Harvard University; Doctoral Fellow, CID
30 October 2006: "Foreign Direct Investment and Migration: Substitutes or Complements?" - Maurice Kugler, Research Fellow, CID Growth Lab Program, Harvard University
6 November 2006: "Introduction of New Goods, Convergence and Growth" - Jason Hwang, Doctoral Candidate in Economics, Harvard University
13 November 2006: "Pass-through at the Dock: Pricing to Currency and to Market?" - Oleg Itskhoki, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University; Gita Gopinath, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University; Roberto Rigobon, Associate Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT
20 November 2006: "Mexico's Growth Puzzle" - Ricardo Hausmann, Director, CID, Professor of Economics, KSG
27 November 2006: "Trade, Diffusion and the Gains from Openness" - Andres Rodr�guez-Clare, Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University
4 December 2006: "Dollars Dollars Everywhere and Not a Dime to Lend?" - Asim I. Khwaja, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, KSG, Harvard University
11 December 2006: "Peter Singer vs. Charles Dickens: Evaluating Particularist Ethics From a Universalist Standpoint" - Dan Wood, Harvard University; Michael Kremer, Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Department of Economics, KSG, Harvard University

Spring 2006

30 January 2006: "South Africa: First Impressions" - Members of the Recent Delegation to South Africa
6 February 2006: There will be no seminar this week due to the visit of Alwyn Young.
13 February 2006: "Is There Consumer Demand for Improved Labor Standards? Evidence from Field Experiments in Social Labeling" - Michael Hiscox, Professor of Government
27 February 2006: "African Orphans" - Anne Case, Research Program in Development Studies, Princeton University
6 March 2006: "Monkeying Around: On the Pattern of Productive Transformation" - Ricardo Hausmann, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development
13 March 2006: "Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from UN Diplomats' Parking Violations" - Ray Fisman, Columbia Business School
3 April 2006: "Economic Growth in South Asia: Promising, Un-equalizing�Sustainable?" - Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank; Editor, World Bank Research Observer
10 April 2006: "A Book Discussion: The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good" - Bill Easterly, Author
17 April 2006: "Property Rights for the Poor: Effects of Land Titling" - Ernesto Schargrodsky, Professor of Business, Universidad Torcuato di Tella
24 April 2006: "The Interface Between Social Protection, Social Security, and Labor Markets: How is Productivity Affected?" - Santiago Levy, Former Director-General of the Mexican Social Security
1 May 2006: No LIEP Luncheon Scheduled
8 May 2006: "A Gold Rush Theory of Economic Development" - Ralph Ossa, Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics

Fall 2005

12 September 2005: "It's Not How Much but What You Export That Matters" - Ricardo Hausmann, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development; Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy
19 September 2005: "Appropriate Growth Policy" - Philippe Aghion, Professor of Economics
26 September 2005: Michael Walton, Lecturer in International Development
3 October 2005: "Cleaning Up the Kitchen Sink: On the Consequences of the Linearity Assumption for Cross-Country Growth Empirics" - Francisco Rodriguez
17 October 2005: Kristen Forbes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
24 October 2005: "A Microeconomist's Take on Growth Theory" - Abhijit Banerjee
7 November 2005: "Can Dark Matter Avoid the Big Bang? On the (Non)Existence of the US Current Account Deficit" - Federico Sturzenegger
14 November 2005: "Trade, Gravity and Sudden Stops: On How Commercial Trade Can Increase the Stability of Capital Flows" - Eduardo Cavallo, Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy
21 November 2005: "Current Research on U.S. Import and Export Prices Using Confidential Micro Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics" - Gita Gopinath
28 November 2005: Zhou Liu, Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy
5 December 2005: "Macro Lessons from Microstructure" - Carol Osler
12 December 2005: "Appropriate Technology, Technology Choice, and Economic Performance in Developing Countries" - Justin Lin

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