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China. First, China has a comparative advantage in this technology. It is substantially more likely to export surveillance … democracies are more likely to import surveillance AI from China. This bias is not observed in AI imports from the US or in … imports of other frontier technologies from China. Third, autocracies and weak democracies are especially more likely to …
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Autocracy 2.0, exemplified by modern China, is economically robust, technologically advanced, globally engaged, and … controlled through subtle and sophisticated methods. What defines China's political economy, and what drives Autocracy 2.0? What … shift in handling commitment and information challenges. China uses economic incentives to align interests with regime …
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disaggregates "R" from "D" to study how US firms adjust their innovation investments in response to an external increase in funding …
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impediment to corporate innovation. By contrast, without technological spillovers, innovation has the effect of stealing market … share from rivals; in that case, more common ownership reduces innovation. Empirically, the association between common … ownership and innovation inputs and outputs decreases with product market proximity and increases with technology proximity. The …
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We make randomized firm-to-firm referrals between 700 supplier and client firms in the industry producing the Chinese writing brush. Subsidized referrals lead to subsequent transactions and a partial crowding out of prior partners; information-only referrals have no effect. The referrals...
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We examine the rise of cloud computing and AI in China and their impacts on industry dynamics after the shock to the …
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Electoral incentives may lead policymakers to eschew opportunities for common-interest reform, focusing instead on zero-sum, partisan policymaking. By forgoing opportunities for common-interest reforms, incumbents may convince their constituents that such reforms are rarely feasible, so that...
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We conduct a field experiment in partnership with the largest job platform in Brazil to study how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices of firms affect talent allocation. We find both an average job-seeker's preference for ESG and a large degree of heterogeneity across...
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Trade policy is set by domestic political bargaining between globalists and protectionists, representing owners of factors specific to export and import-competing sectors respectively. Consistent with the post-Civil War Era of Restriction, protectionists implement high tariffs when status quo...
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We investigate the origins and implications of zero-sum thinking - the belief that gains for one individual or group tend to come at the cost of others. Using a new survey of a representative sample of 20,400 US residents, we measure zero-sum thinking, political preferences, policy views, and a...
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