Food for thought! "Winners and Losers: Competition, Creative Destruction, and Labor Income Risk" by Brice C. Green, Leonid Kogan, Dimitris Papanikolaou, and Lawrence D.W. Schmidt. www.nber.org/papers/w35542
Inclusive Productivity Network
@prodmon.bsky.social
The Swiss Inclusive Productivity Network analyzes productivity developments and intends to help develop measures to foster inclusive productivity.
Highly relevant: A good summer read! "The Measure of Economies: Measuring Productivity in an Age of Technological Change" by Marshall B. Reinsdorf and Louise Sheiner. amzn.to/4w986sb
Food for thought! "Ideas and Firm Dynamics When It Takes Two to Tango" by Seula Kim, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, and Honghao Wang. seulakim-econ.github.io/paper/Ideas_...
Highly relevant! "Selecting Innovation Funding Mechanisms: A Framework for Policymakers" by Matthew S. Clancy, Matthew Esche, Siddhartha Haria, Claire T. McMahon, Christopher M. Snyder, Caleb Watney. www.nber.org/papers/w35549 Online companion tool: The Atlas of Innovation atlasofinnovation.org
Highly relevant! "Competition in the age of AI: Initial evidence from microdata" (OECD) "Overall, the evidence points to a dynamic yet uneven landscape, underscoring the need for continued monitoring as AI diffusion progresses." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
Food for thought! "The Labor Demand Implications of Brand Capital: Evidence from Trademark Transactions" by Jaime Arellano-Bover, Carolina Bussotti, Matteo Paradisi, and Liangjie Wu. static1.squarespace.com/static/5c870...
Highly relevant! "A Conceptual Foundation for the Development of a Lifelong Learning Measurement Framework" (OECD) www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
Super interesting! "Cultural Capital and the Productivity of Ideas: Evidence from Historical Texts" by Radoslaw (Radek) Stefanski. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~wwwecon/rep...
Food for thought! "AI Adoption and Productivity in Healthcare" by Erkmen G. Aslim, Manuel Hoffmann, and Haonan Yin. conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...
Highly relevant! "Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2026" (International Energy Agency) It "includes a detailed assessment of the latest market, investment and technology trends, along with their implications for critical mineral security." www.iea.org/reports/glob...
Highly relevant! "Chinese Sputnik Moments?" by Josh Lerner, Namrata Narain, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Amit Seru, Zunda Winston Xu. "To better understand the Chinese innovation ecosystem, we compile a dataset of almost 14 million domestic Chinese patent publications." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Super interesting! "Innovation and Development over the (Very) Long Run" by Buera, Kornejew, Ma, Oberfield, and Trachter. "...differential access to world innovations contributes to most of modern-time cross-country output gaps..." conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...
Highly relevant! "On the Brink of Utopia: Reinventing Innovation to Solve the World's Largest Problems" by Thomas Ramge and Rafael Laguna de la Vera. "Despite having made major technological advancements in a few areas, we are still left with enormous unsolved challenges." amzn.to/4baGYl5
Super interesting! "Google’s AI & Economy ATLAS v1.0: Mapping Gemini Usage in the Economy" "This paper introduces the AI & Economy ATLAS (Activity, Task, Landscape, and Adoption Study), an ongoing economic research initiative using Google AI usage data." ai.google/static/docum...
Thought-provoking: A good summer or winter read! "What Should My Children Do?: A Human's Guide to the Age of AI" by Daniel Susskind. amzn.to/4wmv7ZH
Super interesting! "The Life Cycle of Ideas" by Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Luc Paluskiewicz, Gaetan de Rassenfosse, and Raphaël Wargon. "We contribute to the debate on the production of ideas by examining the scientific output of an entire field." conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...
Interesting! "The Labor Market Effects of Carbon Pricing" by Fuster, Kabas, Pezone, Roszbach "We study how carbon prices affect labor market outcomes by exploiting a policy change in the EU Emissions Trading System that led to a sharp rise in permit prices." conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...
Super interesting! "(Mis)Perceptions of the Labor Market" by Pierre Deschamps, Morgane Hoffmann, Morgane Laouenan, Louis-Pierre Lepage, and Charles Pebereau. conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...
Food for thought! "Human Capital in Venture Capital: Evidence From 100,000 Venture Capitalists" by Blake Jackson and Ilya A. Strebulaev. www.nber.org/papers/w35501
Super interesting! "Economic Models of Identity Formation and Cultural Transmission" by Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier. "In this paper we survey recent advances in the economic theory of identity formation." bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.nyu.edu/d...
Food for thought! "Taxing Labor: Firm R&D, Automation and the Labor Share" by Hyejin Ku, Uta Schönberg, and Ragnhild C. Schreiner. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
Highly relevant! "Non‑compete clauses and productivity: New cross-country firm-level evidence" by Dan Andrews, Andrea Garnero, and Sara Holttinen. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
Thought-provoking! "Cataloging Growth: A Re-Evaluation of 1900–1990" Verónica Bäcker-Peral and Benjamin Wittenbrin. veronicabp.github.io/website/VBP_...
Super interesting! "Worker Skills, Firm Dynamics, and Productivity" by Ílhan Güner and Christian Siegel. siegel-christian.de/researchpape...
Highly recommended! "Joel Mokyr on Clans, Corporations, and a Culture of Growth," conversations with Tyler (Cowen) conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/joe...
Joel Mokyr on Clans, Corporations, and a Culture of Growth (Ep. 282)
Why didn’t the Romans bother to invent eyeglasses?
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Highly relevant! "Declining and diverging investment responsiveness to firm productivity" by Nikolaj Broberg, Luca Marcolin, and Elettra Sartori. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
Food for thought! "We Must Act Now: A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy," Signatories: Erik Brynjolfsson, Diane Coyle, Daron Acemoglu, Niall Ferguson, Philippe Aghion, Gita Gopinath, and many others. www.wemustactnow.ai
Super interesting! "Aggregate Gains from AI and Their Distribution: Global Evidence from Usage Data" by Rachel Yuting Fan and Ha Minh Nguyen. "How large are the gains from AI, and how are they distributed across occupations?" www.imf.org/en/publicati...
