Globalization and robotics (globotics) are transforming the world economy at an explosive pace since they are driven by …

Globalization and robotics (globotics) are transforming the world economy at an explosive pace. While much of the …

We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian … exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption … medium and large firms. We complete the framework with a 5-digit sector-level analysis showing that adopting automation …

result of productivity growth (assumed to reflect automation) and are part of a long-term trend. Since the 1980s, however … capture many factors besides automation, and cautions against using descriptive evidence to draw causal inferences. It also … employment in the 2000s, but finds little evidence of a causal link to automation. …