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The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment by Acemoglu, Daron, Restrepo, Pascual

“…We examine the concerns that new technologies will render labor redundant in a framework in which tasks previously performed by labor can be automated and new…”
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Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor by Acemoglu, Daron, Restrepo, Pascual

“…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…”
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Demographics and Automation by Acemoglu, Daron, Restrepo, Pascual

“…Abstract We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, because it creates a shortage of middle-aged…”
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An evaluation of the FDA's analysis of the costs and benefits of the graphic warning label regulation by Chaloupka, Frank J, Warner, Kenneth E, Acemoğlu, Daron, Gruber, Jonathan, Laux, Fritz, Max, Wendy, Newhouse, Joseph, Schelling, Thomas, Sindelar, Jody

“…The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 gave the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over cigarettes and smokeless…”
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Secular Stagnation? The Effect of Aging on Economic Growth in the Age of Automation by Acemoglu, Daron, Restrepo, Pascual

“…Several recent theories emphasize the negative effects of an aging population on economic growth, either because of the lower labor force participation and…”
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Opinion Fluctuations and Disagreement in Social Networks by Acemoğlu, Daron, Como, Giacomo, Fagnani, Fabio, Ozdaglar, Asuman

“…We study a tractable opinion dynamics model that generates long-run disagreements and persistent opinion fluctuations. Our model involves an inhomogeneous…”
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Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth by Acemoglu, Daron, Akcigit, Ufuk, Alp, Harun, Bloom, Nicholas, Kerr, William

“…We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A new and central economic force is the…”
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Microeconomic Origins of Macroeconomic Tail Risks by Acemoglu, Daron, Ozdaglar, Asuman, Tahbaz-Salehi, Alireza

“…Using a multisector general equilibrium model, we show that the interplay of idiosyncratic microeconomic shocks and sectoral heterogeneity results in…”
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The Environment and Directed Technical Change by Acemoglu, Daron, Aghion, Philippe, Bursztyn, Leonardo, Hemous, David

“…This paper introduces endogenous and directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints. The final good is produced from "dirty" and…”
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Systemic Risk and Stability in Financial Networks by Acemoglu, Daron, Ozdaglar, Asuman, Tahbaz-Salehi, Alireza

“…This paper argues that the extent of financial contagion exhibits a form of phase transition: as long as the magnitude of negative shocks offecting financial…”
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ENDOGENOUS PRODUCTION NETWORKS by Acemoglu, Daron, Azar, Pablo D.

“…We develop a tractable model of endogenous production networks. Each one of a number of products can be produced by combining labor and an endogenous subset of…”
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Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth by Acemoglu, Daron, Johnson, Simon

“…We exploit the major international health improvements from the 1940s to estimate the effect of life expectancy on economic performance. We construct predicted…”
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When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation? by Acemoglu, Daron

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A POLITICAL THEORY OF POPULISM by Acemoglu, Daron, Egorov, Georgy, Sonin, Konstantin

“…When voters fear that politicians may be influenced or corrupted by the rich elite, signals of integrity are valuable. As a consequence, an honest politician…”
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The value of connections in turbulent times: Evidence from the United States by Acemoglu, Daron, Johnson, Simon, Kermani, Amir, Kwak, James, Mitton, Todd

“…The announcement of Timothy Geithner as nominee for Treasury Secretary in November 2008 produced a cumulative abnormal return for financial firms with which he…”
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LABOR- AND CAPITAL-AUGMENTING TECHNICAL CHANGE by Acemoglu, Daron

“…I analyze an economy in which firms can undertake both labor- and capital-augmenting technological improvements. In the long run, the economy resembles the…”
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Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration by Acemoglu, Daron, Akcigit, Ufuk, Kerr, William

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Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s by Acemoglu, Daron, Autor, David, Dorn, David, Hanson, Gordon H., Price, Brendan

“…Even before the Great Recession, US employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved…”
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Innovation network by Acemoglu, Daron, Akcigit, Ufuk, Kerr, William R.

“…Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million…”
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Income and Democracy by Acemoglu, Daron, Johnson, Simon, Robinson, James A., Yared, Pierre

“…Existing studies establish a strong cross-country correlation between income and democracy but do not control for factors that simultaneously affect both…”
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