Grow Economics Meetings - 'GEM' seminars
The GEM seminar series is a platform to discuss microeconomic and analytical work in areas relevant to single market and industrial policy. Speakers are typically from outside the European Commission. The series is open to all Commission services and exceptionally to external audiences.
- 16 October: China’s industrial policy: where is it headed
Tom Hancock,Researcher and editor on China’s economy and industrial policy; formerly with the Financial Times and Bloomberg - 02 October: The EU clean industrialisation process
Simone Tagliapietra, Bruegel Senior Fellow, Professor at European University Institute and DG GROW Fellow - 12 June: 'European regions transitioning to green markets: the role of related capabilities and public procurement policies'.
Carolina Castaldi, Professor in Geography of Innovation (Utrecht University) and DG GROW Fellow - 22 May: 'World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2025'
Ingo Pitterle, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs - 16 January, 'The next big arenas of competition'.
Chris Bradley, The McKinsey Global Institute
- December 3: 'US Trade Policy After 2024: What is at stake for Europe?'
Julian Hinz, Professor, Bielefeld University - November 8: 'The Great Tech Race: China's performance in Critical and Emerging Technologies'
Alicia Garcia-Herrero, DG GROW Fellow 2024, Senior expert at Bruegel. - September 18: 'Challenges faced by the EU on the road towards economic security'
Professor Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist at the EBRD and DG GROW fellow. - September 10: 'An outside perspective on Single Market and Industrial policies under the next Commission mandate'
Reinhilde Veugelers, Bruegel Senior Fellow and advisor under the GROW Fellowship Programme - September 9: 'Making the green business case: the nexus between green trade policy and competitiveness'
Gabriel Felbermayr, Director at WIFO and Lionel Fontagné, Banque de France and Paris School of Economics - 20 June: 'How to de-risk: European economic security in a world of interdependence'
Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Director at Bruegel - 20 June: 'Reorganising global supply-chains: Who, What, How and Where'
Lionel Fontagné, Banque de France - 13 June: 'Supply Chain Stress Tests at a Country or Global Level: Proof-of-Concept'
Beatrice Dumont, DG GROW Fellow 2023, and Luis Varela, DG GROW - 27 May: 'How to make an entrepreneurial State: why innovation needs bureaucracy'
Erkki Karo, Professor, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance (Tallinn) - 16 May: 'Cross-border M&As and innovation'
Joel Stiebale, DG GROW Fellow 2024 - 18 April: 'Unlocking China's industrial policy and its implications for Europe'
Alicial Garcia-Herrero, DG GROW Fellow 2024, Senior expert at Breugel - 12 March: '2023-2024 Investment report: Transforming for competitiveness'
Debora Revoltella, Chief Economist at the European Investment Bank - 7 March: 'Who is afraid of Foreign Investment Screening?'
Florian Le Gallo, Banque de France - 24 January: 'Resilience and de-risking from China'
Alicia Garcia-Herrero, DG GROW Fellow 2024, Senior expert at Bruegel
- 28 September: 'Industrial strategy in an era of structural change'
Diane Coyle, University of Cambridge - 14 sept: 'New supply bottlenecks index based on newspaper data'
Pablo Burriel, Banco de España - 6 July: 'The Effects of Corporate Subsidies Along the Value Chain'
May Elisa Navarra, ECARES, Research fellow at Fund for Scientific Research - 22 June: ‘GVC exporter performance during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of supply bottlenecks’
Roberta Serafini and Laura Lebastard, European Central Bank - 29 March: 'The scarring effects of major economic downturns: the role of fiscal policy and government investment'
Martin Larch, European Fiscal Board) - 9 March: 'Estimating energy efficiency at firm level'
Leonardo Iacovone, World Bank
