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improvements in long-run productivity and living standards, an effect we estimate to be quantitatively important. Once the …
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We develop an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous firms facing financial frictions, where misallocation emerges explicitly as a crucial endogenous state variable and plays a significant role in driving economic growth through the valuation channel. The model illustrates that transient...
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How large is the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on labor productivity and unemployment? This paper introduces a …-by-using technology. AI capability improves through machine learning from workers and in turn enhances their labor productivity, but …, our model predicts more than threefold improvements in productivity in some-AI steady state, alongside a long …
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immediate productivity gains, AI fundamentally alters the novelty of research. Specifically, when AI systems offer sufficiently …
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Many US federal agencies model the economic and budgetary effects of research and development (R&D) investments -- both public R&D and private R&D -- as if R&D were the same as any other form of investment, such as physical capital investment. However, in recent decades a broad base of evidence...
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Historically, a large majority of the newly elected members of the National Academy of Science (NAS) and the American Academy of Arts and Science (AAAS) were men. Within the past two decades, however, that situation has changed, and in the last 3 years women made up about 40 percent of the new...
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The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research experience and returned to do their research in China...
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superstars intensive in R&D, IT and/or human capital. In addition to productivity spillovers, we document the transmission of …Despite competition concerns over the increasing dominance of global corporations, many argue that productivity … spillovers from multinationals to domestic firms justify pro- FDI policies. For the first time, we use firm-to-firm transaction …
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productive but also raise the productivity of inventors and plants in other clusters, which are connected to the focal cluster … through their parent firms' networks of innovating plants. Cross-cluster innovation spillovers do not depend on the physical … that features both within- and cross-cluster innovation spillovers. Based on our model, we derive a sufficient statistic …
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driven by cost savings/productivity improvements at the task level, its macroeconomic consequences will be given by a version … of Hulten's theorem: GDP and aggregate productivity gains can be estimated by what fraction of tasks are impacted and … average task-level cost savings. Using existing estimates on exposure to AI and productivity improvements at the task level …
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