How did South Korea go from exporting wigs made from human hair & processed human urine (yes you read that right) to colour TVs?

Really enjoyed today's presentation by @jaedochoi.bsky.social & Michael Sposi on export-led growth.

Slides & recording available here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/in...

How export promotion and technology transfer powered South Korea’s industrialisation South Korea’s industrial transformation was driven by the mutually reinforcing promotion of technology adoption and exports – most notably through the Heavy and Chemical Industry Drive – which generat...

🆕 How export promotion and technology transfer powered South Korea’s industrialisation

Today on VoxDev, Francesco Amodio (McGill), @jaedochoi.bsky.social (UT Austin), Markus Poschke (McGill) & Michael Sposi (SMU) discuss South Korea's industrial transformation: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

US multinational joint ventures in China transfer tech, raising long-term competition and harming other US firms. The over-investment hurt US workers and overall welfare, from @jaedochoi.bsky.social, George Cui, Younghun Shim, and Yongseok Shin https://www.nber.org/papers/w34284

New working paper:

The Dynamics of Technology Transfer: Multinational Investment in China and Rising Global Competition

by @jaedochoi.bsky.social, George Cui, Younghun Shim & Yongseok Shin.

Link to the paper as well as other working papers of our center: sites.utexas.edu/macro/resear...

📢CFP
Tariffs and Trade Policy: Past, Present, & Future

@ncsu: Dec 5, 6, 7 (am)
Due: Sept 30 tinyurl.com/2stm2fk7

Papers: 8 + Discuss
Keynote: @douglasirwin.bsky.social
Panel: Chad Bown +TBD
Sponsor: @NSF
NEW TARIFF DATABASE 1789-2025

Funding: Flight+Hotel+Food (presenter/discussant)

Three Threads | Short Empowering Documentary Film | Pachan Siju | Rohan Rao YouTube video by Bandra Film Festival

My brother's film, Three Threads, is live on YouTube as part of the Bandra Film Festival: youtu.be/qvnAxc8hX6o?...

The film follows a weaver in Kutchh who weaves stories of industrialization, deforestation and hope into his tapestries. Give it a watch! #documentary #film #handloom #rannofkutch

What happens to developing countries when highly-educated people migrate? See our new review of the evidence on "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ungated PDF: deanyang-econ.github.io/deanyang/fil... #EconSky #Migration

Excited to see this paper finally out! It began as my second-year PhD trade class term paper and took 9 years to finish!