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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014
An increasingly influential technological-discontinuity paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited...
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Innovation Network
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016
linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584872
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Innovation, reallocation and growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148193
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The environment and directed technical change
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Bursztyn, Leonardo; … - 2010
dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both 'carbon taxes' and research subsidies, so that excessive … the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are substitutes. Under reasonable parameter values …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272399
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The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019
Artificial Intelligence is set to influence every aspect of our lives, not least the way production is organized. AI, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which humans can be productively employed. Recent technological...
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