Research Projects

Oriol Vallès Codina
Projects & Tools

Ecological macroeconomist and computational social scientist at Johns Hopkins University and the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab.

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Ecological Macroeconomics & Multi-Sector Growth

Studying how resource metabolism, income distribution, and structural change interact within a multi-sector dynamical systems framework. Bridging classical political economy with modern computational methods.

Dynamical systems Input-output Growth theory
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Industrial Network Analysis

Mapping production network structures across countries to identify industrial archetypes and hidden vulnerabilities. Uses input-output tables and graph-theoretic metrics to uncover the topology of economic interdependence.

Networks IO tables Graph theory
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Climate Crisis & Structural Change

Quantifying how climate transition policies cascade through industrial networks, affecting employment, prices, and the Global South. Investigating whether green policy in the North can generate climate reparation obligations.

Climate policy North-South Structural change
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Ecological Unequal Exchange & Value Chains

Mapping the architecture of resource and labor flows from periphery to core embedded in global value chains. Identifies pressure points in supply chains critical for the green transition.

Value chains Unequal exchange Trade
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Conservation Laws of Economic Value

Investigating whether there exists an invariant measure of economic value analogous to conservation laws in physics, and its implications for distribution, environment, and inequality.

Value theory Thermodynamics Political economy
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Computational Methods in Social Science

Developing and applying machine learning, statistical inference, and simulation methods to economic and social data. Includes NLP for institutional text, agent-based models, and large-scale bibliometric analysis.

Machine learning Agent-based NLP
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Multi-Sector Growth and the Metabolic Rift

Formalizing the feedback between economic structure and biophysical metabolism using input-output dynamics and entropy production.

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Industrial Policy & Net-Zero Transition

Evaluating industrial policy levers for decarbonization, with attention to employment effects and distributional consequences across regions.

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Global Archetypes of Industrial Networks

Cluster analysis of world input-output tables to identify recurring structural templates in national production systems.

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Critical Minerals & Green Transition Value Chains

Mapping upstream dependency networks for lithium, cobalt, and rare earths, and their implications for North-South climate equity.