We examine the text content of U.S. patent applications, identifying those that advance technologies in support of video conferencing, telecommuting, remote interactivity, and working from home (collectively, WFH). The share of new patent applications that advance WFH technologies more than...

COVID-19 has revealed the critical role data is playing and will increasingly play in the exercise of social control. This article investigates the data life cycle of Contact Tracing Apps—namely, the collection, collation and analysis of data—as a tool of epidemiological surveillance in...

We examine how banks’ technological investments affected their ability to maintain or expand their business in the unprecedented economic recession associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. A one standard deviation increase in our financial technology measure, which describes a bank’s coverage...