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Man vs. Machine : Technological Promise and Political Limits of Automated Regulation Enforcement

Browne, Oliver; Gazze, Ludovica; Greenstone, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

New technologies allow perfect detection of environmental violations at near-zero marginal cost, but take-up is low. We conducted a field experiment to evaluate enforcement of water conservation rules with smart meters in Fresno, CA. Households were randomly assigned combinations of enforcement...

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Automation and Polarization

Acemoglu, Daron; Loebbing, Jonas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either … capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of … intermediate complexity are assigned to capital. Interior automation arises when the most skilled workers have a comparative …

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Inefficient Automation

Beraja, Martin; Zorzi, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How should the government respond to automation? We study this question in a heterogeneous agent model that takes … borrowing is limited. We first show that these frictions result in inefficient automation. Firms fail to internalize that … where the government can tax automation but lacks redistributive tools to fully overcome borrowing frictions. The …

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Automation After the Assembly Line : Computerized Machine Tools, Employment and Productivity in the United States

Boustan, Leah Platt; Choi, Jiwon; Clingingsmith, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

factory automation. We build a novel measure of exposure to computer numerical control (CNC) based on initial variation in …

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The economics of artificial intelligence : an agenda

Agrawal, Ajay (ed.); Gans, Joshua (ed.); Goldfarb, Avi (ed.) - NBER Conference on the Economics of Artificial …; … - 2019

-- 7. Artificial Intelligence, Income, Employment, and Meaning / Betsey Stevenson -- 8. Artificial Intelligence, Automation … / James Bessen -- 11. Public Policy in an AI Economy / Austan Goolsbee -- 12. Should We Be Reassured If Automation in the … Future Looks Like Automation in the Past? / Jason Furman -- 13. R&amp -- D, Structural Transformation, and the Distribution …

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Trust in Large Organizations

Porta, Rafael La - 1996

Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and therefore of performance of social institutions. We argue that trust should be particularly important for the performance of large organizations. In a cross-section of countries,...

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Intergovernmental Cooperation and Tax Enforcement

Troiano, Ugo - 2017

Improving the efficiency of tax collection is important for development and fairness purposes. I study the Audit Exchange Information Agreements, which are agreements between the states and the U.S. federal government to exchange information about income tax audit plans and techniques, signed...

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Central Banks : Evolution and Innovation in Historical Perspective

Bordo, Michael D. - 2017

Central banks have evolved for close to four centuries. This paper argues that for two centuries central banks caught up to the strategies followed by the leading central banks of the era; the Bank of England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Federal Reserve in the twentieth...

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Overcoming the common pool problem through voluntary cooperation : the rise and fall of a fishery cooperative

Deacon, Robert T. - 2010

We analyze a seldom used, but highly promising form of rights-based management over common pool resources that involves the self-selection of heterogeneous fishermen into sectors. The fishery management regime assigns one portion of an overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the...

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Interracial Workplace Cooperation : Evidence from the NBA

Price, Joseph - 2009

Using data from the National Basketball Association (NBA), we examine whether patterns of workplace cooperation occur disproportionately among workers of the same race. We find that, holding constant the composition of teammates on the floor, basketball players are no more likely to complete an...

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