Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee

In today's episode, we have the privilege of hosting an exceptional guest: Ivan Werning, an esteemed Argentinian economist specializing in macroeconomics, international finance, public economics, monetary policies, and taxation. Currently holding the prestigious position of Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics at MIT, Professor Werning conducts extensive research in the fields of Macroeconomics, Public Economics, and International Economics. With personal experience of inflation's impact as a Latin American, he offers a distinctive perspective on its nature. Join us in this captivating exploration of inflation and the exciting frontiers of our understanding!Feel free to email me (host@economistsonzoomgettingcoffee.com) with ideas of future episodes and guests, and any other comments or suggestions!And please, don’t forget to subscribe, and even leave a rating and comment if you liked it (and of course, share)! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

In today’s episode we have a special guest: Diana Van Patten, an economist working on international trade and macro development. She is an assistant professor at Yale's School of Management, faculty affiliated with Yale's Economic Growth Center, and a research associate. She is working on fascinating topics related to globalization and the role of firms and workers, based on her research in Costa Rica. Come join us in this thrilling conversation!Feel free to email me (host@economistsonzoomgettingcoffee.com) with ideas of future episodes and guests, and any other comments or suggestions!And please, don’t forget to subscribe, and even leave a rating and comment if you liked it (and of course, share)! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

In today’s episode we have a great topic to talk about: entrepreneurship. Our guest is Jorge Guzman: an assistant professor at the management division in Columbia’s business school. He is also affiliated to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Jorge has been working on the topic of entrepreneurship both in the US and abroad, and he's really trying to understand this economic activity - something that we all are interested in comprehending. Yet, it is really hard to do so. Jorge has been devising creative ways in how to analyze businesses and the characteristics of entrepreneurial success. Listen in for a phenomenal conversation!Feel free to email me (host@economistsonzoomgettingcoffee.com) with ideas of future episodes and guests, and any other comments or suggestions!And please, don’t forget to subscribe, and even leave a rating and comment if you liked it (and of course, share)! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

In today’s episode we have a great topic to talk about: entrepreneurship. Our guest is Jorge Guzman: an assistant professor at the management division in Columbia’s business school. He is also affiliated to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Jorge has been working on the topic of entrepreneurship both in the US and abroad, and he's really trying to understand this economic activity - something that we all are interested in comprehending. Yet, it is really hard to do so. Jorge has been devising creative ways in how to analyze businesses and the characteristics of entrepreneurial success. Listen in for a phenomenal conversation!Feel free to email me (host@economistsonzoomgettingcoffee.com) with ideas of future episodes and guests, and any other comments or suggestions!And please, don’t forget to subscribe, and even leave a rating and comment if you liked it (and of course, share)! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

In this episode of Economist on Zoom Getting Coffee (#ezgc) we host Amanda Glassman. Amanda is executive vice president and senior fellow at the prestigious think tank Center for Global Development in Washington DC. Her research focuses on priority-setting, resource allocation and value for money in global health, as well as data for development. She has more than 25 years of experience working on health and social protection policy and programs in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. In our conversation we discussed the successes and lessons of COVID-19 in the developing world, discussing the impact of the pandemic, vaccines (and "vaccine hoarding"), and what can we expect now. Listen in for a phenomenal conversation! Feel free to email me (host@economistsonzoomgettingcoffee.com) with ideas of future episodes and guests, and any other comments or suggestions! And please, don’t forget to subscribe, and even leave a rating and comment if you liked it (and of course, share)! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

In this episode of Economist on Zoom Getting Coffee (#ezgc) I host Prithwiraj Choudhury, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, a good friend, and co-author. Raj has a fascinating agenda on the future and geography of work, focusing a lot of his work on the gains of immigration in the context of innovation. He has also been a thought leader on a new research agenda: the future of work and the ability of working from anywhere, and how firms are adapting to this new phenomenon. Feel free to email me with ideas of future episodes / guests, and any other comments or suggestions! And please, don’t forget to subscribe, and even leave a rating and comment if you liked it (and of course, share)! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

In this episode of Economist on Zoom Getting Coffee we host Prof. Pierre Azoulay, the International Programs Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Pierre is known in the field for his seminal studies on innovation and entrepreneurship. Listen in for a conversation about what it takes to become a good inventor and entrepreneur! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

In this episode at Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee (#ezgc) we host Anna Stansbury, incoming Professor at MIT Sloan's Work and Organization Studies. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.  Anna’s research is rigorous, timely and highly policy-relevant. Her research focuses on labor and macro economics, with particular focus on issues to do with labor market power, as an explanation for the slow growth or decline in wages for the average worker.  In this episode we discuss the basics about the divergence between productivity and pay,  worker unions, the pros and cons of unionization, as well as the type of regulation that can increase worker power.For future episodes please don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. You can WATCH this and all other episodes in their video-cast form by visiting our website www.economistsonzoomgettingcoffee.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

In this episode at Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee (#ezgc) we host Prof. Seema Jayachandran, a Professor of Economics at Northwestern University.  Seema's research focuses on economic issues in developing countries, including environmental conservation, gender equality, labor markets, health, and education. She serves on the board of directors for the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, known as J-PAL, and is the chair of its gender sector. She is also the co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's program in Development Economics and co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Seema is also a columnist in the New York Times as a contributor to the Economic View column.  Seema's research is not only pioneering scientifically speaking, but also contains enormously important policy implications, which are novel, effective, implementable and scalable.  In this episode we focus our discussion on gender discrimination in developing countries, where she has been able to show us that this problem starts really early on, even prenatally. And that the way we think about progress when it comes to economic growth might make things even worse. But not everything is bad news, because her research also shows that there are ways to influence some of these trends, which we also discuss.For future episodes please don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. You can WATCH this and all other episodes in their video-cast form by visiting our website www.economistsonzoomgettingcoffee.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

In this episode, Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee (#ezgc) hosts Dr. Homi Kharas, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution.  Homi has published several articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces on global development policy, global trends influencing developing countries, the emergence of the middle class, the role of international organizations in development, and the G-20, among other topics.  Homi has had also a very distinguished public policy career. He served as the executive secretary of the secretariat advising the Untied Nations Secretary General on the post-2015 development agenda, which gave birth to the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. He has served too in a number of different high-level panels advising international organizations and governments. Prior to joining Brookings, Dr. Kharas spent 26 years at the World Bank, serving for seven years as Chief Economist for the East Asia and Pacific region and Director for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, responsible for the Bank’s advice on structural and economic policies, fiscal issues, debt, trade, governance, and financial markets.   As of today he also serves as the principal economic advisor to the World Data Lab (https://worlddata.io), a data enterprise that, among other functionalities, houses the World Poverty Clock (https://worlddata.io/portfolio/world-poverty-clock), a real time tracker of extreme poverty numbers around the globe.  In this episode we talk the current state of poverty around the globe; the emergence of a global middle class; and about the sustainable development goals.For future episodes please don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. You can WATCH this and all other episodes in their video-cast form by visiting our website www.economistsonzoomgettingcoffee.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee hosts Prof. Sam Asher and Prof. Paul Novosad. Both Sam and Paul are development economists. Sam is an Assistant Professor in the International Economics Department and Johns Hopkins SAIS and Paul is an Associate Professor at Darmouth College. Sam and Paul, during their PhD, started a massive endeavor of collecting and putting together immense datasets of administrative information for academic research purposes. While they’re focus of research has been India, in this episode we talk about doing research with high-resolution data to answer questions that otherwise cannot be answered with more aggregated information. They both, through their joint work, have significantly contributed to our understanding of economic development at the very local level. Sam and Paul have shown their commitment to data sharing and open science. They’ve started together the Development Data Lab (http://www.devdatalab.org), a data sharing platform so that people who want to do research on any topic can complement their own datasets with that of others in the same region or country. In this episode we talk about many things, included what have they learned in their career when doing research with high-resolution data that they couldn’t have with more standard datasets. We also talk about their data sharing platforms, such as the SHRUG (http://www.devdatalab.org/shrug), and we were able to get in a laugh or two in between! For future episodes please don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. You can WATCH this and all other episodes in their video-cast form by visiting our website www.economistsonzoomgettingcoffee.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee hosts Prof. William (Bill) Easterly.   Easterly is a development economist. A professor of Economics at New York University, he is also the Co-director of the NYU Development Research Institute. He is a very influential figure both in academia and beyond. He has written three books that have shaped our thinking about economic development: The Tyranny of Experts (March 2014), The White Man’s Burden (2006), and The Elusive Quest for Growth (2001).  In this episode we discussed about the main insights from his recent books, and differentiate between aid --people who are rich giving money to people who are poor-- and development, which involves transformational changes that can transform a country from being poor to being rich. We very candidly discussed about what work and what doesn't when it comes to aid and development, including the role of the World Bank, and of other international development agencies, when achieving --or not-- development goals.  Prof. Easterly is the author of over 60 peer-reviewed academic articles, many written columns for the the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Washington Post, among others. Among his many affiliations, he is a Research Associate of the NBER, and senior fellow at BREAD. Foreign Policy Magazine named him among the Top 100 Global Public Intellectuals in 2008 and 2009, and Thomson Reuters listed him as one of Highly Cited Researchers of 2014. In the past he also served as a Co-Editor of the Journal of Development Economics.For future episodes please don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to this podcast, and don't forget to visit our website www.economistsonzoomgettingcoffee.com to WATCH this and other episodes, and to get more information about the show. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee hosts Carol Graham, known globally by her pioneering work on a field known as economics of happiness and of wellbeing, a field where she is recognized as one of its most influential scholars. With Carol we talked about the most important findings she've had in her research when tracking people's happiness and wellbeing, both in the US and around the globe, as well as discussing whether it is wellbeing that causes changes in income or the other way around. We also discussed her most recent research on "deaths of despair" in America.Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, and a Senior Scientist at Gallup. She is author of numerous books, such as “Happiness for All? Unequal Lives and Hopes in Pursuit of the American Dream” (Princeton University Press, 2017) and “The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being” (Brookings, 2011; published in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and paperback), among many others. She is also the author of dozens of articles in leading academic journals and has also authored numerous chapters in edited volumes. She is an associate editor at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and on the editorial boards of numerous other economic journals.For future episodes please don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to this podcast, and don't forget to visit our website www.economistsonzoomgettingcoffee.com to WATCH this and other episodes, and to get more information about the show. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee hosts Prof. Amit Khandelwal, one of the leading economists on topics related to international trade in the context of developing countries. With Amit we talk about the main findings of his studies on how the effects of more trade are different for rich and for poor countries, how firms and countries improve upon the ability to reach new and sophisticated markets, and what are the type of policies that make sense in order for developing countries to benefit the most from opening up to trade.  Amit Khandelwal is the Chazen Professor of Global Business in the Economics Division of Columbia Graduate School of Business. He is also the editor co-chair of one of the Review of Economic and Statistics, one of the most prestigious academic journals in economics. His research interests examine issues in international and development economics, including the strategic response of firms to trade liberalizations and increased international competition.For future episodes please don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to this podcast, and don't forget to visit our website www.economistsonzoomgettingcoffee.com to WATCH this and other episodes, and to get more information about the show. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee  hosts Prof. Raffaella Sadun, one of the leading scholars understanding the importance of management practices in boosting productivity. With Raffaella we talk about the main findings of her studies on how management varies across firms and countries, and about the role of management in the response of hospitals, and the public health sector more generally, to the COVID19​ global pandemic.   Raffaella Sadun is a Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Prof. Sadun's research focuses on the economics of productivity, management and organizational change. Her research documents the economic and cultural determinants of managerial choices, as well as their implications for organizational performance in both the private and public sector (including healthcare and education). She is among the founders of the World Management Survey (www.worldmanagementsurvey.org) and the Executive Time Use Study (www.executivetimeuse.org).For future episodes please don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to this podcast, and don't forget to visit our website www.economistsonzoomgettingcoffee.com to WATCH this and other episodes, and to get more information about the show. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee hosts Prof. Ran Abramitzky and Prof. Leah Boustan. Ran and Leah are leading economists with a joint research agenda on immigration to the United States from a historical perspective, and particularly, on the mass migration from Europe to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their joint research has been published by the top journals and their work represent the gold standard of research on economic history. In this episode they share the main lessons from their work on immigration, as well as how they think their findings can inform immigration policy. We also discuss their upcoming book, and their advice for successful co-authorship!  Ran Abramitzky is a Professor of Economics and the Senior Associate Dean of the Social Sciences at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He is the former co-editor of Explorations in Economic History.  Leah Boustan is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where she is also a faculty associate of the Industrial Relations Section. She is co-director of the Development of the American Economy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and serves as co-editor at the Journal of Urban Economics and on the editorial board of the American Economic Review and of the Journal of Economic Perspectives.For future episodes please don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to this podcast, and don't forget to visit our website www.economistsonzoomgettingcoffee.com to WATCH this and other episodes, and to get more information about the show. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com

Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee (#ezgc) hosts Prof. Ricardo Hausmann, a highly influential and respected figure both in academic and policy circles, to talk about his thoughts about the #globalrecession caused by #COVID19, about his very own research on the power of #knowhow as an engine of #economicgrowth and #economicdevelopment, and beyond.   Prof. Hausmann is the Rafik Hariri Professor Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard University and the Director of the Growth Lab at Harvard Center for International Development. In the early 1990s he was Minister of Planning of  his home country Venezuela. After that he became the first Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank.   For future episodes please don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to this podcast, and don't forget to visit our website www.economistsonzoomgettingcoffee.com to WATCH this and other episodes, and to get more information about the show. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit danybahar.substack.com