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This paper studies how gradualism affects the welfare gains from trade, technology, and reforms. When people face adjustment frictions, gradual shocks create less adverse distributional effects in the short run. We show that there are welfare gains from inducing a more gradual transition via...
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This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...
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and inequality effects. I show theoretically that even when AI improves the productivity of low-skill workers in certain … tasks (without creating new tasks for them), this may increase rather than reduce inequality. Empirically, I find that AI … advances are unlikely to increase inequality as much as previous automation technologies because their impact is more equally …
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We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased...
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How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the … quantify the implications for technology growth rates in Britain compared to France. Our results indicate that the shape of the … change and industrial growth in Britain during the Industrial Revolution …
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In this paper we study the implications of general-purpose technological growth for asset prices. The model features … leads to cycles in asset valuations and risk premia as firms convert the growth options associated with the new technologies …
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A satisfactory account of the postwar growth experience of the United States should be able to come to terms with the …
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We present a model of growth and technology transfer based on the idea that technologies are specific to particular …-run convergence and growth, than either the standard neoclassical model or simple endogenous-growth models …
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We study how opening to trade affects economic growth in a model where heterogeneous firms can choose to adopt a new … technology already in use by other firms. We characterize the growth rate using summary statistics of the profit distribution … increased export opportunities and foreign competition, induces more rapid technology adoption, and generates faster growth …
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meet numerous macroeconomic regularities. First, it can produce a balanced growth path and satisfy the Uzawa Growth Theorem … features of economic growth …
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