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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014
An increasingly influential technological-discontinuity paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333318
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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961044
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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945141
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Optimal Capital Versus Labor Taxation with Innovation-Led Growth
Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Fernandez-Villaverde, Jesus - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2013
innovation-led growth into the Chamley-Judd framework, using a Schumpeterian growth model where productivity … on the market size for innovation. At the same time, for a given labor supply, taxing capital also reduces innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822886
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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084407
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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655943
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Innovation and Institutional Ownership
Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670440
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Innovation and Institutional Ownership
Aghion, Philippe; Van Reenen, John; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661518
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Globalisation, ICT and the Nitty Gritty of Plant Level Datasets
Martin, Ralf - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
The net entry contribution to aggregate productivity growth has increased dramatically in the UK over 1990saccording to calculations based on data from the Annual Respondents Database (ARD). Some recent studieshave tried to link this to other structural changes over the same period such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150982
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The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019
Artificial Intelligence is set to influence every aspect of our lives, not least the way production is organized. AI, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which humans can be productively employed. Recent technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005993