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Seminar in Economics | with Chad Syverson

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Chad Syverson, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, who will present "Micro- and Macroeconomic Impacts of a Place-Based Industrial Policy".

Welcome to this Higher Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Chad Syverson, a professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. 

Abstract

We investigate the impact of a set of place-based subsidies introduced in Turkey in 2012. Using firm-level balance-sheet data along with data on the domestic production network, we first assess the policy’s direct and indirect impacts. We find an increase in economic activity in industry-province pairs that were the focus of the subsidy program, and positive spillovers to the suppliers and customers of subsidized firms. With the aid of a dynamic multi-region, multi-industry general equilibrium model, we then assess the program’s impacts. Based on the calibrated model we find that, in the long run, the subsidy program is modestly successful in reducing inequality between the relatively under-developed and more prosperous portions of the country. These modest longer term effects are due to the ability of households to migrate in response to the subsidy program and to input-output linkages that traverse subsidy regions within Turkey.

 

The seminar takes place at Stockholm School of Economics, Sveavägen 65, room A750.

Please contact nicola.donohoe@hhs.se if you have any questions.

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