Our IP measurement paper is out! One result in need of more work: we find that advanced economies target their best performing export sectors. That’s not the case for developing countries. All our data and LLM model weights are publicly available: www.industrialpolicydata.com

New interview with our co-founder @rjuhasz.bsky.social with Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse 📰 She discusses the challenges to Europe and how well-thought-through industrial policies designed with vision 🚀, while not a silver bullet, are part of the solution 🙌 www.industrialpolicygroup.com/media

Coming up 19 May, 17:00 CET @oenb.at: Schumpeter Lecture with Prof. Réka Juhász (@rjuhasz.bsky.social) from Univ. of British Columbia on the “The New Economics of Industrial Policy”. In cooperation with Schumpeter Society & @oenb.at. More: ➡️ shorturl.at/ToEUH REGISTER by 12 May: ➡️ shorturl.at/nhx4T

Governor Macklem presents Professor @rjuhasz.bsky.social of the University of British Columbia with the 2025 Governor’s Award at the Fellowship Learning Exchange conference 🏆 Congratulations Professor! Learn more: bit.ly/3YA2wRP #cdnecon #economy #awards #BankOfCanada

You cannot simultaneously do “industrial policy” while gutting state capacity.

The parallels with Hungary are striking with one key exception in my view: Hungary’s decline has been relative and slow. Hard for voters to understand. Trump’s willingness to visibly break the economy in pursuit of economically illiterate tariff policy may put the US on a different path soon.

We’re hiring predocs at VSE with a start date of summer 2025. Come work with me on industrial policy and industrialization past and present. Not your thing? A number of my wonderful colleagues are also hiring! Listing is here: economics.ubc.ca/news/pre-doc...

How do major infrastructure projects reshape the lives of those displaced and those residing in affected communities? In my JMP, I answer this question in the context of the construction of the Interstate Highway System.🛣️🚧 A thread of my results 🧵🧵 #EconJMP

A humbling read for Europeans. Being an infant industry is super hard. “The Chinese are being so fast on this,” said one former Northvolt chemical engineer. “They are established and they have already done it. So they’re just better. We are late to the party.” on.ft.com/3V3OQwH