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The Technological Elements of Artificial Intelligence
Taddy, Matt - 2018
We have seen in the past decade a sharp increase in the extent that companies use data to optimize their businesses. Variously called the `Big Data' or `Data Science' revolution, this has been characterized by massive amounts of data, including unstructured and nontraditional data like text and...
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Lessons from U.S.-China Trade Relations
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Parro, Fernando - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during the last decades. We first discuss the origins of the China shock, its measurement, and present methods used to study its economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus...
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Economic Analysis of Social Interactions
Manski, Charles F. - 2000
rigor of modern economic analysis. Major theoretical developments in game theory, the economics of the family, and … endogenous growth theory have taken place. Economists have also performed new empirical research on social interactions, but the … empirical literature does not show progress comparable to that achieved in economic theory. This paper examines why and …
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Researcher Incentives and Empirical Methods
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2006
Economists are quick to assume opportunistic behavior in almost every walk of life other than our own. Our empirical methods are based on assumptions of human behavior that would not pass muster in any of our models. The solution to this problem is not to expect a mass renunciation of data...
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The Social Multiplier
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2002
In many cases, aggregate data is used to make inferences about individual level behavior. If there are social interactions in which one person's actions influence his neighbor's incentives or information, then these inferences are inappropriate. The presence of positive social interactions, or...
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Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics
Baum-Snow, Nathaniel - 2014
Recovery of causal relationships in data is an essential part of scholarly inquiry in the social sciences. This chapter discusses strategies that have been successfully used in urban and regional economics for recovering such causal relationships. Essential to any successful empirical inquiry is...
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Job Creation, Job Destruction, and the Real Exchange Rate
Klein, Michael W. - 2000
This paper contributes to an understanding of internationally generated adjustment costs by demonstrating a statistically significant and economically relevant effect of the real exchange rate on job creation and job destruction in U.S. manufacturing industries over the period 1973 to 1993. The...
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Understanding How Price Responds to Costs and Production
Bils, Mark - 1999
The importance of sticky prices in business cycle fluctuations has been debated for many years. But we argue, based on a large empirical literature from the 1950's and 60's, that it is necessary to distinguish the response of price to an increase in factor prices from its response to an increase...
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What Inventory Behavior Tells Us About Business Cycles
Bils, Mark - 1999
Manufacturers' finished goods inventories move less than shipments over the business cycle. We argue that this requires marginal cost to be more procyclical than is conventionally measured. We construct, for six manufacturing industries, alternative measures of marginal cost that attribute...
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Technical Progress in U.S. Manufacturing Sectors, 1948-1973 : An Application of Lie Groups
Sato, Ryuzo - 1985
The purpose of this paper is to apply the theory of Lie transformation groups as developed by the first author, and … economics to incorporate the theory of Lie transformation groups, so the results are new, but they are also interesting. Using …
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