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Acemoglu, Daron - 1999

these tasks are designed to be used by skilled workers, productivity in the LDCs will be low. Even when all countries have … factor productivity and output per worker. Our theory also suggests that productivity differences should be highest in medium … effect on the direction of technical change and on productivity differences …

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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

Acemoglu, Daron - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …

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Robots and workers: evidence from the Netherlands

Acemoglu, Daron; Koster, Hans; Ozgen, Ceren - 2023

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Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A.; … - In: Journal of monetary economics 56 (2009) 8, pp. 1043-1058

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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development : An Empirical Investigation

Acemoglu, Daron - 2000

We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. The choice of...

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Competing Engines of Growth : Innovation and Standardization

Acemoglu, Daron - 2010

We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are adapted to be produced using unskilled labor. Our...

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Political Limits to Globalization

Acemoglu, Daron - 2010

Despite the major advances in information technology that have shaped the recent wave of globalization, openness to trade is still a political choice, and trade policy can change with shifts in domestic political equilibria. This paper suggests that a particular threat and a limiting factor to...

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