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We study changes in markups across 72 product markets from 2006 to 2018. A growing literature has documented a rise in … product markets. We find that changes in firms' marginal costs and households' price sensitivity are the primary drivers of …
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Standard methods for estimating production functions in the Olley and Pakes (1996) tradition require assumptions on input choices. We introduce a new method that exploits (increasingly available) data on a firm's expectations of its future output and inputs that allows us to obtain consistent...
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inputs, and product characteristics with plausibly exogenous variation in the availability and adoption of broadband internet … newspaper sheets, and in doing so avoided meaningful losses in profits. The printed newspaper product available to customers …
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Does capital accumulation increase labor demand and wages? Neoclassical production functions, where capital and labor are q-complements, ensure that the answer is yes, so long as labor markets are competitive. This result critically depends on the assumption that capital accumulation does not...
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progression of scientific findings through a major university's technology transfer process and 2.) firms' use of the academic …
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streamlining the licensing process of intellectual property (IP). It notes that in the traditional world, there can be a tension … create a transparent and secure record of the inventing process can alleviate these concerns. On the one hand, blockchain …
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In the presence of markup differences, externalities and other social considerations, the equilibrium direction of innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing comparative static results and characterizes...
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For those who follow health and technology news, it is difficult to go more than a few days without reading about a compelling new application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to health care. AI has myriad applications in medicine and its adjacent industries, with AI-driven tools already in use...
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lose as they face increased competition, product-market encroachment, and lower profits and valuations. They increase R …
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We model a key step in the innovation process, hypothesis generation, as the making of predictions over a vast …
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