A randomized evaluation of matching grants to promote exports in Tunisia finds large effects on exports, but mainly of existing products to existing destinations, from Nadia Ali, Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahman, and Eric Verhoogen nber.org/papers/w33985

Call for papers! 3rd New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference Columbia University, Nov. 6-7, 2025. Submit here (deadline Sept. 12): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…. Conference page: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/content/new-th…. Hosts: Columbia's Initiative for Policy Dialogue, CDEP ColumbiaSIPA, Columbia Institute of Global Politics, CPE.

RIDGE Workshop Towards Sustainable Growth is back! New theme: bridging micro and macro development New methodological focus: reduced-form + structural 💥 Montevideo, December 9-10 Send us your papers! Deadline: September 13 Link to submit: ridge.org.uy

Submission deadline for this PEDL young scholars workshop (to take place the day before the Oct 24-25 International Growth Centre/Yale Economic Growth Center Firms/Trade/Development conference) is Sept 7 (soon!). For researchers post-PhD but untenured (or <=8 years out). Hope to see many of you there.

Call for papers: the 3rd New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference Columbia University will take place November 6-7, 2025. Deadline to submit is September 12. Submission details and more information available below:

Submission deadline is this Sunday.

This semester, we'll organize a PhD reading group on Industrial policy at Columbia Economics, with CBS, SIPA, and CPE, with Lucía Casal and Filip Milos (both postdocs at CBS) We'll cover recent advances in IP at the intersection of macro, growth, firm dynamics, trade-spatial, public

Submission deadline for the Columbia New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference is this Friday, Sept. 12, 11:59pm ET. Congressman Ro Khanna will be the keynote speaker. Send us your papers!

The Brookings Institution Papers on Economic Activity was an amazing conference! Huge thanks to editors Janice Eberly and Jon Steinsson for such a successful event. Grateful to my fantastic co-authors Eric Verhoogen and Joseph E. Stiglitz. brookings.edu/events/bpea-fa… youtube.com/watch?v=PdjKMB…

A nice summary of our new paper on the employment impacts of the CHIPS Act from The Brookings Institution.

Knowledge spillovers are key to growth but hard to estimate. Randomly giving out energy-efficient motors to leather-goods firms in Bangladesh led to strong local spillovers, from Ritam Chaurey, Gaurav Nayyar, Siddharth Sharma, and Eric Verhoogen nber.org/papers/w34296

[Reading Group IP week 3] This week, we discussed the 2024 article by R. Juhász, N. Lane, and D. Rodrik "The New Economics of Industrial Policy". They survey the literature and argue for a more nuanced opinion on government interventions 1/6

New research by Professors Bilge Erten, Joseph E. Stiglitz, & Eric Verhoogen examines the impact of the CHIPS and Science Act on US semiconductor jobs and upstream input sectors. Read more via Brookings Econ here: brookings.edu/articles/emplo…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20713 Social Learning among Urban Manufacturing Firms: Energy-Efficient Motors in Bangladesh Ritam Chaurey, Gaurav Nayyar, Siddharth Sharma World Bank, Eric Verhoogen ow.ly/jsWO50X7ORZ #CEPR_DE #CEPR_ITRE #EconTwitter

New #BPEA research by Bilge Erten, Joseph E. Stiglitz, & Eric Verhoogen estimates that the CHIPS and Science Act led to a 15-21k increase in US semiconductor jobs and 27-33k job increase in upstream input sectors and non-residential construction. Read more >>

And one more excellent ILAS | Columbia University event coming up on 10/29 with William F. Maloney from Banco Mundial | América Latina y el Caribe and comments by Eric Verhoogen from Columbia | SIPA & Columbia Economics. Join us! More info: tinyurl.com/4ehxvffn ColumbiaSocialSci Barnard College

En unos días tendré el privilegio de presentar nuestro estudio sobre la efectividad del programa Buenas Prácticas Exportadoras en esta gran conferencia en Columbia sobre política industrial organizada por Eric Verhoogen y otros. Un lujo el programa: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/sites/cdep.sip…