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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Winds of Change: Technical Progress and Learning by Doing in the Wind Industry
DESCRIPTION:We measure technical progress and cost declines in the wind turbine industry\, accounting for large quality improvements that have occurred over time. As in many industrial settings\, we do not observe costs. Instead\, we infer them by modeling the turbine procurement process\, and estimate the model on the near-universe of global commercial wind farms built from 2000 to 2019. We find that while commonly reported measures of price per unit of capacity fell by 30 percent during this time\, latent quality-adjusted costs fell by over 75 percent. Underpinning these cost declines\, we estimate substantial learning-by-doing. A doubling of manufacturing experience reduces manufacturing costs by 26 to 29 percent. Though inter-firm spillovers per unit are relatively small\, in aggregate\, they rationalize a significant portion of the cost reductions over time.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151827
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Environment,Energy,Economics
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20261005T090606
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:CMENAS 65th Anniversary: Celebrate the Legacy\, Scholarship\, & Future of MENA Studies
DESCRIPTION:10:30–11:  Arrival & Registration\n\n11:00–11:10: Director Welcome Remarks by CMENAS Director Jay Crisostomo\, George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Civilization and Languages+\n\n11:15–12:30: Building CMENAS: Foundations & Transformations\, Former Directors Panel \n\n1:30 – 2:45: CMENAS in Practice: Careers & Impact featuring CMENAS Alumni\, Language Lecturers\, and K–12 Educators\n\n2:50– 2:55: Keynote Introductions\n\n3:00–4:30: Keynote by Aaron David Miller\, Senior Fellow\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\n\n4:30–4:40 PM: Closing Remarks\n\nAbout the Keynote Speaker:\nAaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\, focusing on U.S. foreign policy. He has written five books\, including his most recent\, The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President (Palgrave\, 2014) and The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (Bantam\, 2008)\, and hosts Carnegie Connects\, Carnegie’s premier live podcast. He received his PhD in Middle East and U.S. diplomatic history from the University of Michigan in 1977. Miller hosts Carnegie Connects\, Carnegie’s premier live podcast.\n\nMiller’s articles have appeared in the *New York Times*\, *Washington Post*\, *Politico*\, *Foreign Policy Magazine*\, and *Foreign Affairs Magazine*. He is a frequent commentator on CNN\, MSNBC\, NPR\, BBC\, and SiriusXM Radio.\n\nJoin on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/E78M6
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150692
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Middle East Studies,Conference,cmenas,center for middle eastern and north african studies
LOCATION:Michigan League - Vandenberg Room (2nd Floor)
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