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The dynamics of automation adoption : firm-level heterogeneity and aggregate employment effects
Bisio, Laura; Cuzzola, Angelo; Grazzi, Marco; … - 2023
We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian … of Italian importing firms and estimate the effects on adopters' outcomes within a difference-indifferences design … exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption …
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Computerizing Industries and Routinizing Jobs : Explaining Trends in Aggregate Productivity
Aum, Sangmin - 2018
Aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. has slowed down since the 2000s. We quantify the importance of differential productivity growth across occupations and across industries, and the rise of computers since the 1980s, for the productivity slowdown. Complementarity across occupations and...
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Robots, Trade, and Luddism : A Sufficient Statistic Approach to Optimal Technology Regulation
Costinot, Arnaud - 2018
on robots and trade, the magnitude of these taxes may decrease as the process of automation and globalization deepens and …
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Globotics and Development : When Manufacturing is Jobless and Services are Tradable
Baldwin, Richard; Forslid, Rikard - 2022
Globalization and robotics (globotics) are transforming the world economy at an explosive pace. While much of the literature has focused on rich nations, the changes are quite likely to affect developing nations in important ways. The premise of the paper - which should be regarded as a...
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2010
In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...
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Dynamic entry and exit linkages in the Brazilian manufacturing industry : an econometric investigation
Resende, Marcelo; Ribeiro, Eduardo Pontual; Zeidan, … - 2013
The paper investigates dynamic linkages between entry and exit rates in Brazilian manufacturing in the context of 231 (4-digits) industries during the 1996-2005 period. The empirical analysis focuses on the estimation of a dynamic panel data for entry and exit rates and controls for the business...
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Limited consumer attention in international trade
Egger, Hartmut; Falkinger, Josef - 2013
This paper introduces a model of limited consumer attention into an otherwise standard new trade theory model with love-of-variety preferences and heterogeneous firms. In this setting, we show that trade liberalization needs not be welfare enhancing if the consumers' capacity to gather and...
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A leverage theory of tying in two-sided markets
Choi, Jay Pil; Jeon, Doh-Shin - 2016
Partly motivated by the recent antitrust investigations concerning Google, we develop a leverage theory of tying in two-sided markets. We analyze incentives for a monopolist to tie its monopolized product with another product in a two-sided market. Tying provides a mechanism to circumvent the...
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Dynamic competition with network externalities : why history matters
Hałaburda, Hanna; Jullien, Bruno; Yehezkel, Yaron - 2016 - September 2013, revised March 2016
We consider dynamic competition among platforms in a market with network externalities. A platform that dominated the market in the previous period becomes "focal" in the current period, in that agents play the equilibrium in which they adopt the focal platform whenever such equilibrium exists....
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Sports league expansion and economic efficiency : Monopoly can enhance consumer welfare
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2003
This paper studies optimal sport league size. League expansion lowers average player quality, reducing fans utility in inframarginal locations, while fan utility in new locations rises. Welfare analyses of such expansions must compare these two effects. Using a model where fan demand depends on...
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