St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar - Professor Harry Garretsen - 'Economic geography meets psychology: Motivation, results, and research agenda'

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• Harry Garretsen
• Wednesday 06 November 2024, 18:00-19:30
• The Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College.

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Speaker: Professor Harry Garretsen

Title:’Economic geography meets psychology: Motivation, results, and research agenda’

Time: 6 November 2024, 18:00-19:30

Location: The Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College.

The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar will be held on Wednesday, 6 November 2024. Professor Harry Garretsen will give a talk on “Economic geography meets psychology: Motivation, results, and research agenda”. The seminar will beheld in the Ramsden Room at St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School.

Talk Overview:

Economic differences across space are only partially be explained by economic determinants. One reason might be the neglect of the psychological make-up of regions and its citizens. Recent research under the heading of ‘geographical psychology’ highlights the potential of a psychological approach to enhance our understanding of the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity. To assess the value added of incorporating psychological factors, we will use the individuals’ personality traits as a prime example. It turns out that the regional variation in these traits does not only help to explain regional growth differences, but also regional differences in political outcomes and in resilience to shocks. When discussing various promising research results, the importance of a proper research design looms large with notably causality issues and underlying behavioral mechanisms being real concerns. We will also address potential policy implications and draw up a research agenda.

Speaker Overview:

Harry Garretsen is Professor of International Economics & Business at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His main research interests are international economics & geography, and leadership and management. He serves on the editorial boards of various international journals, is active as an economic policy adviser, inter alia as a member of the Banking Council of the Dutch central bank. He co-directs, together with Janka Stoker, In the LEAD , a centre of expertise on leadership at the University of Groningen (https://www.rug.nl/inthelead/). His research is summarized in An Introduction to Geographical and Urban Economics: A spiky world, Cambridge University Press, 2020 (co-authored with with Steven Brakman and Charles van Marrewijk). Garretsen is a long-time collaborator of Professors Ron Martin and Pete Tyler, a.o. via a joint editorship of the Cambridge Journal of the Regions, Economy, and Society (CJRES), and his visiting positions at the Univ. of Cambridge at the Dept. of Land Economy as well as St. Catharine’s College.

This talk is part of the St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series series.

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