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Artificial intelligence (AI) is surpassing human performance in a growing number of domains. However, there is limited evidence of its economic effects. Using data from a digital platform, we study a key application of AI: machine translation. We find that the introduction of a machine...
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. This is the first study exploring the feedback effect on corporate disclosure in response to technology …
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. Advances (and expected advances) in a single technology should affect both its adoption rate and the adoption of alternative …
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This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U … IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production is virtually identical in the two countries. In addition, as a … result of the adoption of the new technology, plants in both countries have shifted production to customized products …
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technology adoption. The 2018 Annual Business Survey (ABS), conducted by the Census Bureau in partnership with the National …, nonfarm sectors of the economy. We describe the motivation for and development of the technology module in the ABS, as well as … provide a first look at technology adoption and use patterns across firms and sectors. We find that digitization is quite …
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What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world's technological frontier? In this paper, we seek to shed light on this question by quantifying the geographic and human barriers to the transmission of technologies. We argue that...
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This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has … between productivity and exports, and exploiting heterogeneous technology diffusion from immigrant communities in the United …
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Well functioning Markets for Technology (MFT) allow inventors to sell their inventions to others that may derive more …
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The innovations that became the foundation for the Internet originate from two eras that illustrate two distinct models …
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This paper studies how information and communication technology (ICT) improvements affect trade along the value chain … and international technology diffusion. We examine the impact of a revolutionary technology, the roll-out of the global … international technology diffusion through the complementary mechanisms of importing machinery and acquiring knowledge of the …
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