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Finding Needles in Haystacks : Artificial Intelligence and Recombinant Growth
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2018
Innovation is often predicated on discovering useful new combinations of existing knowledge in highly complex knowledge …
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation
Cockburn, Iain M. - 2018
impact by serving as a new general-purpose “method of invention” that can reshape the nature of the innovation process and … stimulating research productivity and innovation-oriented competition going forward …
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Ai, Labor, Productivity and the Need for Firm-Level Data
Seamans, Robert - 2018
conditions under which robotics and AI complement or are substituting for labor. Further, firm-level data would also allow for …-level data could be collected and used by academics, policymakers and other researchers …
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Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War
Jones, Benjamin F. - 2007
Assassinations are a persistent feature of the political landscape. Using a new data set of assassination attempts on …
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Some Facts of High-Tech Patenting
Webb, Michael - 2018
Patenting in software, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence has grown rapidly in recent years. Such patents are acquired primarily by large US technology firms such as IBM, Microsoft, Google, and HP, as well as by Japanese multinationals such as Sony, Canon, and Fujitsu. Chinese...
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Education and Innovation : The Long Shadow of the Cultural Revolution
Huang, Zhangkai; Phillips, Gordon M.; Jialun, Yang; … - 2022
innovation by firms, and ask if it impacted firms more than 30 years later. We examine the innovation of firms with CEOs who …
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The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China : Theory and Empirical Evidence on the Autocrat's Trade-Off
Martinez-Bravo, Monica - 2017
from rural China. Consistent with the model, we find that elections improve (weaken) the implementation of popular …
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Are We Approaching an Economic Singularity? Information Technology and the Future of Economic Growth
Nordhaus, William D. - 2015
What are the prospects for long-run economic growth? The present study looks at a recently launched hypothesis, which I label Singularity. The idea here is that rapid growth in computation and artificial intelligence will cross some boundary or Singularity after which economic growth will...
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The Productivity J-Curve : How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies
Brynjolfsson, Erik - 2018
General purpose technologies (GPTs) such as AI enable and require significant complementary investments, including co-invention of new processes, products, business models and human capital. These complementary investments are often intangible and poorly measured in the national accounts, even...
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Occupational Classifications : A Machine Learning Approach
Ikudo, Akina - 2018
generate an automated crosswalk between job titles and occupations, millions of dollars could be saved in labor costs, data … processing could be sped up, data could become more consistent, and it might be possible to generate, without a lag, current … occupations to job titles contained in administrative data using automated, machine-learning approaches. We use a new …
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