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Pascual Restrepo et Daron Acemoglu
novembre 2018
We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment over the recent past. At the center of our framework is the task content of production. Automation, which enables capital to...
Patrick Kline, Neviana Petkova, Heidi Williams et Owen Zidar
n° 25245, novembre 2018
This paper analyzes how patent-induced shocks to labor productivity propagate into worker compensation using a new linkage of US patent applications to US business and worker tax records. We infer the causal effects of patent allowances by comparing firms whose patent applications were initially...
Sébastien Gadat, Ioana Gavra et Laurent Risser
vol. 43, n° 4, novembre 2018, p. 1051–1404
Discrete structures like graphs make it possible to naturally and exibly model complex phenomena. Since graphs that represent various types of information are increasingly available today, their analysis has become a popular subject of research. The graphs studied in the field of data science at...
Andrea Attar, Thomas Mariotti et François Salanié
vol. 69, n° 6, novembre 2018, p. 1009–1023
Nous proposons un survol de travaux récents sur la concurrence entre vendeurs lorsqu'il y a sélection adverse et non-exclusivité, c'est-à-dire que l'acheteur peut simultané- ment échanger avec plusieurs vendeurs. Nous montrons que la sélection adverse favorise les tarifs convexes, qu'un tarif...
Marc Ivaldi et Tuba Toru-Delibasi
vol. 70, novembre 2018, p. 46–52
In tribute to Jules Dupuit, this study analyzes how the innovative financing tax for development has influenced the competition among airline companies and to what extent it affected their sales. To do so, we specify an econometric model where the representative consumer chooses the utility...
Jeanne Bovet, Eva Raiber, Weiwei Ren, Charlotte Wang et Paul Seabright
vol. 109, n° 4, novembre 2018, p. 674–693
Jérôme Bolte, Shoham Sabach et Marc Teboulle
We introduce a novel approach addressing global analysis of a difficult class of nonconvexnonsmooth optimization problems within the important framework of Lagrangian-based methods. This genuine nonlinear class captures many problems in modern disparate fields of applications. It features complex...
Vivek Venkataraman, AK Yegian, Ian J. Wallace, N. Holowka, I. Tacey, Michael Gurven et Thomas S. Kraft
vol. 285, n° 1890, novembre 2018
The convergent evolution of the human pygmy phenotype in tropical rainforests is widely assumed to reflect adaptation in response to the distinct ecological challenges of this habitat (e.g. high levels of heat and humidity, high pathogen load, low food availability, and dense forest structure), yet...
Bryan Bollinger, Kenneth Gillingham, Gordon T. Kraft-Todd et Stefan Lamp
vol. 563, novembre 2018, p. 248
Promoting the adoption of public goods that are not yet widely accepted is particularly challenging. This is because most tools for increasing cooperation—such as reputation concerns1 and information about social norms2—are typically effective only for behaviours that are commonly practiced, or at...
Jean-Paul Azam et Véronique Thelen
vol. 24, n° 4, novembre 2018
This paper reports that the econometric findings of Azam & Thelen (2010) remain valid when the sample is extended by 10 years to cover 1990–2014 in Azam & Thelen (2018). They blame the presence of US troops in oil-exporting countries and their neighbors for increasing transnational...
