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Testing the employment and skill impact of new technologies : a survey and some methodological issues

Barbieri, Laura; Mussida, Chiara; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2019

The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, is going to transform societies and economic systems. However, this is not the first technological revolution humankind has been facing,...

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Testing the employment impact of automation, robots and AI : a survey and some methodological issues

Barbieri, Laura; Mussida, Chiara; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2019

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Innovation diffusion, technological convergence and economic growth

Andergassen, Rainer; Nardini, Franco; Ricottilli, Massimo - 2013

discovery and in the diffusion of a technological principle and their profit flow depends on how many firms adopt the innovation …

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Technological innovation and inclusive growth in Germany

Naudé, Wim; Nagler, Paula - 2017

Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades …, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth … welfare state, as well as through offshoring and reduced fixed capital investment of the corporate sector. The outcome was …

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Competitiveness and ecological impacts of green energy technologies : firm-level evidence for the DACH region

Peneder, Michael; Arvanitis, Spyridon; Rammer, Christian; … - 2017

For a large sample of enterprises in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the "DACH" region) we study the impact of policy instruments such as energy-related taxes, subsidies, standards and negotiated agreements, or other regulations on the firm's ecological and economic performance. To identify...

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Mirage on the horizon : geoengineering and carbon taxation without commitment

Acemoglu, Daron; Rafey, Will - 2018

We show that, in a model without commitment to future policies, geoengineering breakthroughs can have adverse environmental and welfare effects because they change the (equilibrium) carbon taxes. In our model, energy producers emit carbon, which creates a negative environmental externality, and...

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The race for an artificial general intelligence : implications for public policy

Naudé, Wim; Dimitri, Nicola - 2018

research is needed to elaborate the design of systems of public procurement of AI innovation and for appropriately adjusting … the legal frameworks underpinning high-tech innovation, in particular dealing with patents created by AI. …

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Technological coherence and the adaptive resilience of regional economies

Rocchetta, Silvia; Mina, Andrea - 2018

This paper explores the effect of different regional technological profiles on the resilience of regional economies to exogenous shocks. It presents an empirical examination of the determinants of resilience through panel analyses of UK NUTS III level data for the 2004-2012 period. The results...

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Artificial intelligence, jobs, inequality and productivity : does aggregate demand matter?

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2018

Rapid technological progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has been predicted to lead to mass unemployment, rising inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i) surveying the recent literature and (ii)...

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Maintenance costs, obsolescence, and endogenous growth

Berden, Koen G.; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2001

investment in research and development and the growth rate of theeconomy. …

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