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SUMMARY:St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar - Professor Harry Garre
 tsen - 'Economic geography meets psychology: Motivation\, results\, and re
 search agenda' - Harry Garretsen
DTSTART:20241106T180000Z
DTEND:20241106T193000Z
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CONTACT:Philippa Millerchip
DESCRIPTION:*Speaker:* Professor Harry Garretsen\n\n*Title:*'Economic geog
 raphy meets psychology: Motivation\, results\, and research agenda'\n\n*Ti
 me:* 6 November 2024\, 18:00-19:30\n\n*Location:* The Ramsden Room\, St Ca
 tharine's College.\n\nThe next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar 
 will be held on Wednesday\, 6 November 2024. Professor Harry Garretsen wil
 l give a talk on “Economic geography meets psychology: Motivation\, resu
 lts\, 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 semina
 r series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Econom
 ics and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School.\n\n*Talk Over
 view:*\n\nEconomic differences across space are only partially be explaine
 d by economic determinants. One reason might be the neglect of the psychol
 ogical make-up of regions and its citizens. Recent research under the head
 ing of ‘geographical psychology’ highlights the potential of a psychol
 ogical approach to enhance our understanding of the uneven spatial distrib
 ution of economic activity. To assess the value added of incorporating psy
 chological 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 regio
 nal differences in political outcomes and in resilience to shocks. When di
 scussing various promising research results\, the importance of a proper r
 esearch design looms large with notably causality issues and underlying be
 havioral mechanisms being real concerns. We will also address potential po
 licy implications and draw up a  research agenda.\n \n\n*Speaker Overview:
 *\n\nHarry Garretsen is Professor of International Economics & Business at
  the University of Groningen\, The Netherlands.  His main research interes
 ts 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 Bank
 ing Council of the Dutch central bank. \nHe co-directs\, together with Jan
 ka Stoker\, In the LEAD\, a centre of expertise on leadership at the Unive
 rsity of Groningen (https://www.rug.nl/inthelead/). His research is summar
 ized 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 Prof
 essors Ron Martin and Pete Tyler\, a.o. via a joint editorship of the Camb
 ridge Journal of the Regions\, Economy\, and Society (CJRES)\, and his vis
 iting positions at the Univ. of  Cambridge at the Dept. of Land Economy as
  well as St. Catharine’s College. \n
LOCATION:The Ramsden Room\, St Catharine's College
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