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inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i … aggregate demand. A second is that the predictions of AI causing massive job losses and faster growth in productivity and GDP … growth and productivity is stagnating and inequality is rising. Our paper provides a theoretical explanation of this in the …
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savings and investment. Jointly with meagre productivity growth, this implies a low natural rate of interest that conditions …, artificial intelligence, automation) may increase productivity growth but at the risk of having disruptive effects on employment …
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evolution of innovation across time and space and its effect on productivity. We document a substantial rise of international … productivity (TFP) growth in a panel of country-sectors from 2000 to 2014, as well as on aggregate income per capita since 1960. To …
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evolution of innovation across time and space and its effect on productivity. We document a substantial rise of international … productivity (TFP) growth in a panel of country-sectors from 2000 to 2014, as well as on aggregate income per capita since 1960. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193741
productivity. We embed the recently released data on patents and publications related to AI into an augmented panel model of … productivity growth, estimated for OECD countries, and compared to a non-OECD sample. Our instrumental variables' estimates …, accounting for AI endogeneity, provide evidence in favour of the modern (AI) productivity paradox. We show that the development …
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. Second, export-market participation was associated with increases in a plant's productivity growth. Third, our analysis … identified the presence of three main mechanisms through which export-market participation raises productivity growth among …
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After a number of AI-winters, AI is back with a boom. There are concerns that it will disrupt society. The immediate concern is whether labor can win a 'race against the robots' and the longer-term concern is whether an artificial general intelligence (super-intelligence) can be controlled. This...
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This paper analyses the relationship between total factor productivity (TFP) and innovation-related variables during … variables (domestic stock of knowledge, imports of knowledge, and human capital) and productivity. Our results reveal the extent …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine how the Solow residual relates to innovation at the firm level. We estimate two kinds of relationships. The first relationship explains innovation output from innovation inputs. The second relationship relates TFP growth to innovation output. We obtain two...
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This paper studies the global synchronicity of technology and its impact on the economy. We employ dynamic factor analysis to decompose patent data in different digital technologies for various countries into global and country-specific factors. Our findings confirm the existence of global and...
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