The project aims to accelerate evidence-based economic research into industrial strategy, promoting rigorous work in a fledgling literature. We believe producing focused, thematic research is necessary to understanding these interventions, and, importantly, in promoting more rigorous, empirical discussion to the research community.
Our work focuses on the following three strategic themes: (i) conceptual (e.g., clarifying analytic concepts, high-level methodological thinking, and synthesizing evidence); (ii) measurement and data (e.g., collecting high-resolution data on policy practice, measuring new quantities); and (iii) empirical evaluation (e.g., applying new econometric methods to evaluating key episodes) in industrial strategy.
The principal objective of our lab is to conduct efficient, team-based empirical research into industrial policy. Second, our lab integrates training and research collaboration with junior colleagues. Third, we will use our lab to disseminate publications and promote empirical output to the larger research community, across the empirical social sciences.
The project will first create a new body of scientific knowledge on industrial policy. Second, it will produce a new group of industrial policy scholars.
Funded by the Alfed P Sloan Foundation, in collaboration with University of British Columbia.
