-scale evidence on how efficiently firms use these technologies. In this paper, we study firm productivity and learning in cloud … and persistent heterogeneity in compute productivity both across and within firms, similar to canonical results in the … use a wider variety of specialized machines. Notably, productivity is dynamic as firms learn to be more productive over …

We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both … manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this effect goes beyond the …

required lower fixed costs and therefore was attractive to relatively low productivity entrants. These entrants then became … incumbents, locked into water power even if their productivity grew …

incentivize capacity investment, reduce reliance on spot markets, and enhance competition ameliorate the externality …

aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …

this question, we propose a nested constant elasticity of substitution production function that distinguishes among three … the tasks of high-skill workers. We show that AI reduces the skill premium as long as it is more substitutable for high …