This paper assesses the impact of US policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic on various cryptocurrencies and also technology stocks using fractional integration techniques. More precisely, it analyses the behaviour of the percentage returns in the case of nine major coins (Bitcoin - BITC,...

The COVID-19 pandemic holds at least seven lessons for the relationship between data-driven decision making, the use of artificial intelligence, and development. These are that (1) in a global crisis, the shifting value of data creates policy pitfalls; (2) predictions of crises and how they play...

Preface and Acknowledgements1 An Overview2 Robots and their Economic Significance3 The impact of Robotization on Production Processes and its Rudimentary Economic Implications 4 Machine Learning and the Economy5 Robotization, the Economy and the Labour Market: A Look at Theoretical and Empirical...