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Technological Synergies, Heterogeneous Firms, and Idiosyncratic Volatility

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Yu, Yang; Zanetti, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper shows the importance of technological synergies among heterogeneous firms for aggregate fluctuations. First, we document six novel empirical facts using microdata that suggest the existence of important technological synergies between trading firms, the presence of positive...

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Science and the Market for Technology

Arora, Ashish; Belenzon, Sharon; Suh, Jungkyu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Well functioning Markets for Technology (MFT) allow inventors to sell their inventions to others that may derive more …

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Regulating Transformative Technologies

Acemoglu, Daron; Lensman, Todd - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

many sectors, but they also present new risks from potential misuse. We develop a multi-sector technology adoption model to … optimal adoption is gradual and convex. If social damages are proportional to the productivity gains from the new technology …

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M&A and Technological Expansion

Jin, Ginger Zhe; Leccese, Mario; Wagman, Liad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine how public firms listed in North American stock exchanges acquire technology companies during 2010 …

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Technology and Local State Capacity : Evidence from Ghana

Dzansi, James; Jensen, Anders; Lagakos, David; Telli, Henry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first … conduct a new census of all local governments in Ghana to document a strong association between technology use and property … tax billing, collection and enforcement. We then randomize the use of a new revenue collection technology within one large …

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Programming FPGAs for Economics : An Introduction to Electrical Engineering Economics

Cheela, Bhagath; DeHon, André; Fernández-Villaverde, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We show how to use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and their associated high-level synthesis (HLS) compilers to solve heterogeneous agent models with incomplete markets and aggregate uncertainty (Krusell and Smith, 1998). We document that the acceleration delivered by one single FPGA is...

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Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...

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