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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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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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This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...
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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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We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased...
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How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors worked in technologies that were more central...
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consequences of changing firm concentration: productivity, distortions, selection into exporting, scale economies, and … firms is attributable to higher productivity growth rather than differential distortions. Exceptional performance of the top …
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