New Thinking in Industrial Policy: Perspectives from Developed and Developing Countries
Industrial policy is back on mainstream policy agendas in the U.S., Europe, and many developing countries, but the knowledge base to guide industrial policy remains underdeveloped. This conference on “New Thinking in Industrial Policy: Perspectives from Developed and Developing Countries” will convene leading researchers from economics, sociology, political science, and related fields to take stock of what is known and what needs to be learned about the optimal design of industrial policy, the challenges in evaluating interventions empirically, and the difficulties that practitioners face on the ground. The conference will be hosted by the Firms & Industrial Policy Idea Lab of the Center for Political Economy (CPE), the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), the Institute of Global Politics (IGP), and the Center for Development Economics and Policy (CDEP). It builds on the successful 1st, 2nd, and 3rd meetings in the series.
The program includes two keynote plenary panels, and sixteen competitively selected papers in parallel sessions. Ana Fernandes (World Bank) and Josh Lerner (Harvard) will open the conference. Parallel paper sessions will follow. The closing session features Heather Boushey (University of Pennsylvania), Elizabeth Reynolds (MIT), and Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia). The full program is here.
The conference is open to the public. But please register in advance at this link. If you have questions, please contact Olena Jennings of CDEP at [email protected].
