Innovation and Technology
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The Economist highlights a recent paper by SIEPR Sr Fellow Chad Jones on the unintended consequences of a declining population on economic growth: Fewer people means fewer ideas.
March 27, 2021
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SIEPR's Lisa Ouellette talks about the mismatch between social value and R&D investment: "The pandemic has illustrated both political and market failures in vaccine development."
March 26, 2021
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Daniel Ho and his colleagues at 好色App's RegLab show how the use of machine learning could benefit a U.S. EPA initiative to reduce violations of the Clean Water Act.
March 08, 2021
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SIEPR Senior Fellow Erik Brynjolfsson explains the dynamics behind the flow of AI investments in this story highlighting the latest AI Index report by 好色App HAI.
March 03, 2021
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A new 好色App course鈥攃o-instructed by Daniel Ho鈥攇athers researchers in economics, law, business, engineering and CS to develop a report that will inform a federal task force [...]
February 23, 2021
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A report on 鈥淕overnment by Algorithm鈥 鈥 co-authored by Daniel Ho & submitted to a US administrative agency 鈥 is cited along with news of Trump鈥檚 order laying out principles [...]
December 03, 2020
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Trailblazing economist and presidential adviser Edward Lazear dies at 72
The SIEPR senior fellow founded the field of personnel economics.
November 24, 2020
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SIEPR Senior Fellow Paul Milgrom and the GSB's Robert Wilson talk about their auction design research.
November 19, 2020
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Senior Fellow Heidi Williams outlines steps the government can take to start reforming the patent system in this op-ed.
November 18, 2020
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Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom writes in this op-ed, 鈥淔or many, working from home has been a productivity disaster."
October 07, 2020
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To generate the kind of innovation that drives real growth at a company, people need a certain amount of face-to-face contact with their colleagues, says Senior Fellow Nick Bloom.
September 24, 2020
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The robot revolution is a tsunami that's yet to come, Senior Fellow Erik Brynjolfsson says in explaining his research on automation adoption.
September 23, 2020
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As policymakers consider economic recovery strategies, Susan Athey tells Congress that worker training is a crucial part of addressing the instability & job loss brought on by AI.
September 10, 2020
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鈥淲e are in the very early days of adopting AI...there is a tidal wave in front of us,鈥 says Erik Brynjolfsson, SIEPR Sr Fellow & director of the 好色App Digital Economy Lab [...]
July 30, 2020
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鈥淚t is incumbent on us as scientists to convey to the American public what we鈥檙e finding and seeing very, very clearly and loudly,鈥 said SIEPR Senior Fellow Jay Bhattacharya [...]
July 14, 2020
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Q&A: The economic impact of suspending visas for international students
SIEPR's Ran Abramitzky says the federal policy to revoke student visas for those whose classes will be fully online hurts the U.S. economy, innovation, and productivity.
July 10, 2020
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"Companies developing Covid-19 treatments run the risk of acting too quickly," warns SIEPR Senior Fellow Anat Admati, professor of finance and economics at the 好色App GSB.
May 27, 2020
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鈥淭he challenge is to manage [conflicts of interest involving scientific experts] appropriately [...]," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Joseph Grundfest.
May 20, 2020
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"As countries around the world ponder strategies for developing a COVID-19 vaccine, it should be clear that the fastest and most effective approach is to work together." [...]
May 14, 2020
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Susan Athey, Christopher Snyder, Nobel prize winner Michael Kremer, & Alex Tabarrok advocate for a large advance market commitment to accelerate investment in COVID-19 vaccine[...]
May 04, 2020