Industrial Policy Group

We study how governments shape economies.

We are an academic research group dedicated to the economic analysis of industrial policy. Our goal is to gain a basic understanding of global industrial policy practices.

Find Our Work

Find our research at industrialpolicygroup.com

Find our data at https://industrialpolicydata.com

Find our (NLP) models at huggingface.co/industrialpolicygroup

Leadership and Staff

• Dr. Réka Juhász - Co-founder and Principal Investigator (UBC)
• Dr. Nathan Lane - Co-founder and Principal Investigator (Oxford)
• Veronica C. Perez - Lab Manager and Co-Author (BU)
• Lottie Field - Predoctoral Research Fellow (UBC/Oxford)

Funding

Dr. Réka Juhász and Dr. Nathan Lane are funded by the Alfred P. Sloan and National Research Council Canada (NRC; French: Conseil national de recherches Canada).

Key Research Areas

• Global industrial policy practice and measurement
• Causal inference and policy evaluation
• Economic impacts of industrial policy interventions
• Empirical analysis of industrial development
• Political economy of industrial policy
• Technology absorption and globalization
• Historical analysis of industrial development

Recent Work

• Measuring Industrial Policy: A Text-Based Approach - Réka Juhász, Nathan Lane, Emily Oehlsen, Veronica Perez
  • Formerly: The Who, What, When, and How of Industrial Policy: A Text-Based Approach - Réka Juhász, Nathan Lane, Emily Oehlsen, Veronica Perez
• Codification, Technology Absorption, and the Globalization of the Industrial Revolution - Réka Juhász, Shogo Sakabe, and David Weinstein
• Industrial Policy in the Global Semiconductor Sector - Pinelopi Goldberg, Réka Juhász, Nathan Lane, Giulia Lo Forte, and Jeff Thurk
• The Political Economy of Industrial Policy - Réka Juhász and Nathan Lane
• Industrial Policy and the Great Divergence - Réka Juhász and Claudia Steinwender
• Manufacturing Revolutions - Nathan Lane