The observed uneven distribution of economic activity across space is influenced by variation in exogenous geographical characteristics and endogenous interactions between …
The US-China trade war created net export opportunities rather than simply shifting trade across destinations. Many “bystander” countries grew their exports of taxed products into the …
D Acemoglu - AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023 - aeaweb.org
In the presence of markup differences, externalities, and other social effects, the direction of innovation can be systematically distorted. I build a simple model of endogenous technology …
D Acemoglu, P Restrepo - The Review of Economic Studies, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, because it creates a shortage of middle-aged workers specializing in manual …
S Proost, JF Thisse - Journal of Economic Literature, 2019 - aeaweb.org
Spatial economics aims to explain why there are peaks and troughs in the spatial distribution of wealth and people, from the international and regional to the urban and local …
U Akcigit, M Melitz - Handbook of International Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
We provide a review of the recent literature–both theoretical and empirical–analyzing the multi-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model …
K Matsuyama - Econometrica, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Endogenous demand composition across sectors due to income elasticity differences, or Engel's Law for brevity, affects (i) sectoral compositions in employment and in value …
Developing artificial intelligence (AI) technology requires data. In many domains, government data far exceed in magnitude and scope data collected by the private sector …
SJ Redding - Handbook of International Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reviews recent research on geography and trade. One of the key empirical findings over the last decade has been the role of geography in shaping the distributional …