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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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innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …
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, along with a more complex set of innovation incentives. This chapter presents background on medical device regulation … adverse events and recalls), and concludes with a discussion of the implications of regulation for innovation incentives in …
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We examine the impact of lost intellectual property protection on innovation, competition, acquisitions, lawsuits and …
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-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion within firms. Using …
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Timely and accurate measurement of AI use by firms is both challenging and crucial for understanding the impacts of AI on the U.S. economy. We provide new, real-time estimates of current and expected future use of AI for business purposes based on the Business Trends and Outlook Survey for...
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firm characteristics - Tobin's Q, past investment, earnings-price ratios, market betas, and idiosyncratic volatility of … returns by aggregate investment and valuation ratios; and v) a downward sloping term structure of risk premia for dividend … strips. Our model delivers testable predictions about the behavior of firm-level real variables - investment and output …
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We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...
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of creative destruction, we draw a distinction between technological innovation advanced by the firm, or its competitors …. Using administrative data from the United States, we find that own firm innovation is associated with a modest increase in … worker earnings growth, while innovation by competing firms is related to lower future worker earnings. Importantly, these …
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, the task polarization model, the automation-reinstatement race, and the era of Artificial Intelligence uncertainty. The …
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