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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.

Overview

The Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), the Firms & Industrial Policy Idea Lab of the Center for Political Economy (CPE), the Center for Development Economics and Policy (CDEP), and the Institute of Global Politics (IGP) at Columbia University hosted a conference on “New Thinking on Industrial Policy: Perspectives from Developed and Developing Countries” in Nov. 1-2, 2024. The event took place in person at SIPA, Columbia. It followed a successful first edition of the conference in Nov. 2023.

We welcomed papers on this broad theme for consideration for the program. We were open to theoretical and empirical studies, as well as reflections on practice. We considered extended abstracts or proposals for big-think talks. Keynotes were delivered by Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School) and Alondra Nelson (Institute for Advanced Study), and a lunch talk was given by Mariana Mazzucato (UCL).

The academic committee for the event included: Bilge Erten (Northeastern University), Martin Guzman (Columbia University), Reka Juhasz (University of British Columbia), Nils Kupzok (Columbia University), Nathan Lane (Oxford University), Felipe Lobel (Columbia University), Juan Montecino (American University), Andrew Schrank (Brown University), Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University), Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University), and Josh Whitford (Columbia University).

 

You can see the full program, slides, and papers from presentations below. You can also see a video of the full event here.
Bureaucrats and the Korean Export Miracle


Paper | July 18, 2024

Authors: Philipp Barteska, Jay Euijung Lee

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Firm-to-Firm Referrals


Paper | October 16, 2024

Authors: Jing Cai, Wei Lin, Adam Szeidl

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Transition to Green Technology along the Supply Chain


Paper | August 2024

Authors: Philippe Aghion, Lint Barrage, Eric Donald, David Hémous, Ernest Liu

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Sabotage as Industrial Policy


Paper | September 2024

Authors: Jin Liu, Martin Rotemberg, Sharon Traiberman

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The Costs of Conditionality


Paper | August 2024

Authors: Luuk Schmitz, Timo Seidl, Tobias Wuttke

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