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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Highly relevant! "The Commoditization of Labor" by Masao Fukui, Emi Nakamura, and Jón Steinsson. "Commoditization of labor drives down worker bargaining power: anyone can do the job, implying workers are disposable..." www.nber.org/papers/w35815

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Super interesting! "The Effects of U.S. Public R&D on Global Growth" by Gustavo De Souzaa, Andrew J. Fieldhouseb, Karel Mertensc, Ishan B. Nathd, Valerie A. Ramey. "This paper provides the first causal estimates of the global social returns to U.S. public R&D." conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Super interesting! "Investing in Human Capital Incubation" by Seung Hyeong Lee, Bryan Seegmiller, Yufeng Wu, and Miao Ben Zhang "firms’ intangible investments raise their employees’ portable human capital, designating these firms as “human capital incubators.”" conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Highly relevant! "Generative AI and the Limits of Productivity Measurement in the System of National Accounts" by Jim Tebrake and Erich Stassner. www.imf.org/en/publicati...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Food for thought! "The Value of Codifying Organizational Knowledge" by Martin Beraja and Eduard Talamàs. conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Highly relevant! "Dictators, Democracies, and Discoveries: Political Institutions and the Creation of Knowledge" by Hager, Radde, Schwarz, and Waldinger. "Countries with high-quality institutions build larger academic sectors and produce more scientific output" conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Food for thought! "The plunging price of thought" by Luke Emberson and David Roodman. "Over the past three years, the cost of a given level of AI performance has fallen an average of some 47% per quarter." epoch.ai/publications...

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The plunging price of thought

Epoch AI measures how fast the cost of a given level of AI performance is falling across five benchmarks covering math, science and games of skill: about 47% per quarter, or 13x per year, since 2023, ...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Highly relevant! "Unbundling Labor" by Chris Edmond and Simon Mongey. "Why is there so much wage inequality within occupations? Why has the overall level of within-occupation wage inequality risen?" www.nber.org/papers/w35783

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Super interesting! "Does AI Assistance Enhance or Erode Expertise? Evidence from a Three-Month Field Experiment in Patent Drafting" by Autor, Rodchenko, Martin, Iscenko, Strand, Pearl, and Ferere. www.nber.org/papers/w35720

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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 18/09/2026

📢 #CallForPapers - 27th CEPR-JIE Conference on Applied Industrial Organization 📆27-28 May 2027 | 📍 @tilburg-university.bsky.social ⌛Deadline: 22 November Organisers: @florianederer.bsky.social, @kleintob.bsky.social, Jeanine Miklós-Thal, & Nicola Pavanini ow.ly/WgWU50ZP5Y3 @erc.europa.eu

The 2027 CEPR-JIE Conference on Applied Industrial Organization will take place in Tilburg, Netherlands, hosted by the Tilburg University, on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 of May 2027.
The Applied IO conference series seeks to contribute to the understanding of the breadth of topics analysed within the field of Industrial Organization, including demand analysis, productivity, competition in the short- and long-run, innovation, investment, and auctions.
The programme will cover a wide range of topics in Industrial Organization. In addition, for this edition of the conference, we will organise a dedicated session on Housing and Mortgages and we welcome submissions on the topic.
Scientific Committee: Florian Ederer (Boston University Questrom School of Business), Tobias Klein (Tilburg University), Jeanin Miklós-Thal (University of Rochester), Nicola Pavanini (Tilburg University).

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Super interesting! "The End of Oil" by Ryan Kellogg. "Even as global oil demand has increased in recent years, it is plausible to envision scenarios in which clean energy technologies or climate policies drive demand to essentially zero by the century’s end." www.restud.com/wp-content/u...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Super interesting! "Research and Innovation Careers Observatory 2026: Key Indicators on Talent, Mobility and Working Conditions" (OECD) www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Highly relevant! "The Measurement Revolution? Credible Measurement and Inference in the Age of AI" by Melissa Dell and Ashesh Rambachan. "We argue that credible inference with AI-generated variables requires appropriately designed validation..." www.nber.org/papers/w35744

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Food for thought! "A transformative AI strategy for Europe" by various high‑level authors and advisors. transformative-ai.eu/download/a_t...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Super interesting! "Creative Destruction in a Data Economy" by Erwan Morellec and Francesca Zucchi. "We study how data and artificial intelligence (AI) shape innovation, firm dynamics, and growth." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Super interesting! "Agency: The Psychological History of Human Progress" by Martin E. P. Seligman. "...a landmark work spanning ancient Greece to the age of AI that identifies agency—the fusion of efficacy, optimism, and imagination—as the hidden engine of human progress..." amzn.to/4yuc2VV

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Food for thought! "Firm Pay and Consumption Inequality" by Sigurd Galaasen, Andreas R. Kostøl, and Michael Simmons. www.andreaskostol.no/public/GKS.pdf

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Very valuable! "Can machines replace human workers? Notes on agency, automation, and AI," Fernandez Macias "This paper proposes a conceptual framework for analysing the automation of human labour, with particular attention to artificial intelligence." publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Super interesting! "What Does Venture Capital Actually Finance? Scale and Structure around the World" by Santiago Reyes, Kianna Freeman, Pablo Hernando-Kaminsky, Jeremias Huber, and Paolo Mauro. openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thought-provoking! "Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity" by Claudia Goldin. "Drawing on decades of her own groundbreaking research, Claudia Goldin provides a fresh, in-depth look at the diverse experiences of college-educated women..." amzn.to/4ikyJam

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Very valuable! "Investment Policy Framework for Digital Transformation" (OECD) "The OECD Investment Policy Framework for Digital Transformation aims to help governments promote private investment that supports digital transformation." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Highly relevant! "Innovation Cluster Ranking 2026" (World Intellectual Property Organization) "Each year, the Global Innovation Index (GII) ranks the top 100 innovation clusters worldwide..." www.wipo.int/web-publicat...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Super interesting! "Innovation, Diffusion through Technology Standards and the Value of the Firm" by Antonin Bergeaud, Julia Schmidt, and Riccardo Zago. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ouia9...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Highly relevant! "The Economics of Transformative AI," edited by Agrawal, Brynjolfsson, and Korinek. "This book brings together sixteen research studies from top economists that look closely at how transformative AI reshapes everything from innovation...to inequality..." amzn.to/4cqEtM3

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Super interesting! "Europe’s long-term care gap: longevity risk and health uncertainty" by Anna Bahí, Svend E. Hougaard Jensen, Maria Catarina Louro, and Alexandre Mendonça. www.bruegel.org/working-pape...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Very valuable! "Mismatch in the 21st century: An overview" by Luca Coraggio, Monica Langella, Armando Miano, Marco Pagano, Marco S. Petterson, Vincenzo Pezone, and Annalisa Scognamiglio. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Super interesting! "The Crisis of the Tax State Revisited: Artificial Intelligence, Business Conflict, and Digital Fiscal Capacity" by Jacob Edenhofer and Ben Ansell. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Super interesting! "Who Pays for Unions?" by Samuel Dodini, Anna Stansbury, and Alexander Willén. The Quarterly Journal of Economics: academic.oup.com/qje/advance-... Ungated version: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Super interesting! "What Work Does Generative AI Do?" by Alexander Bick, Adam Blandin, David Deming, Tyler Schumacher. "We measure how workers use genAI for their jobs in a nationally representative survey linking genAI adoption to detailed occupations and tasks." drive.google.com/file/d/1bJm0...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Looking forward to reading this book! "The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth: How a Nineteenth-Century Novelist Taught the World Economics" by Jeanna Smialek. amzn.to/4cTzUtN

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Food for thought! "Who Takes the Hit? The Uneven Impacts of Generative AI on Labor Demand Across Countries" by Jingyun Huang, Yan Liu, He Wang, and Shu Yu. "Has generative AI begun to displace workers globally, or only in high-income countries?" thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/07f7f...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Highly relevant! "Twin Transition and Productivity Growth: Why Intangible Capital Matters" by Ettore Gallo, Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, and Iris Smiderle. www.productivity.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Food for thought! "Incubators and accelerators for public sector innovation: Helping governments fast-track solutions for innovation challenges" (OECD) www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Super interesting! "The Global Landscape of National AI Strategies" by Roxana Radu. "This paper explores how governments around the world are steering the adoption and development of artificial intelligence (AI) through their national strategies." thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/f74e8...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Food for thought! "Market power, growth, and wealth inequality" by Giammario Impullitti and Pontus Rendahl. 23cbebb7-8e0e-4817-ac9c-abea7d6f15ba.filesusr.com/ugd/209853_f...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Thought‑Provoking: A Good Summer Read! "Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids" by Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti. amzn.to/4xdpw8k

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Food for thought! "Labor Market Power with Worker and Firm Heterogeneity" by David W. Berger, Kyle F. Herkenhoff, Jaehun Jeong, and Simon Mongey. www.nber.org/papers/w35640

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Highly relevant! "Immiserizing Automation" by Vladimir Asriyan, Hugo Reichardt, and Sandro Shelegia. "Our main result is that automation of junior tasks can be immiserizing: when its cost savings are small, automation lowers long-run output." hugoreichardt.com/pdf/immiseri...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thought‑Provoking: A Good Summer Read! "The New Geography of Innovation: The Global Contest for Breakthrough Technologies" by Mehran Gul. "This is a story about technology and the places where it finds its way into the world." amzn.to/46hjPKD

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Highly relevant! "Will AI Intensify or Weaken Market Competition?" by Hamid Firooz, Sylvain Leduc, and Zheng Liu. www.frbsf.org/research-and...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Highly relevant! "Aging Economies and AI Adoption: Firm-Level Evidence from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys" by Ha Minh Nguyen. www.imf.org/en/publicati...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Thought-provoking and perhaps controversial: definitely a good summer read! "Peak: Unleashing Your Inner Champion Through Revolutionary Methods for Skill Acquisition and Performance Enhancement in Work, Sports, and Life" by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool. amzn.to/45CX1oy

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Food for thought! "Cultural Evolution" by Oded Galor, Marc Klemp, and Daniel C. Wainstock. "This study develops a unified theory of cultural evolution, characterizing the forces that have governed this process over the course of human existence." www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Highly relevant! "Welfare Resilience Assessment Framework: A Framework for Welfare Resilience in the Age of AI" by Avinash Kothuri, Raphael Gregorian, and Deric Cheng. windfalltrust.org/publications...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Really cool! "GDP-B: Surplus Observer" (Stanford Digital Economy Lab) "GDP-B measures how much consumers benefit from goods and services, not just how much they pay. On this page, we track consumer surplus from generative AI tools over time..." digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/project/indi...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thought-provoking: A good summer read! "The Permanent Problem: The Uncertain Transition from Mass Plenty to Mass Flourishing" by Brink Lindsey. amzn.to/4zp9qdc

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Highly relevant! "Monopsony Makes it Big" by Sydnee Caldwell, Arindrajit Dube, and Suresh Naidu. "The literature on imperfect competition in labor markets has expanded rapidly in recent years. This article provides a guide to the field..." www.nber.org/papers/w35608

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This looks like a must-read! "The Rise of Anger: Emotions and Policy Views" by Eva Davoine, Stefanie Stantcheva, Thomas Renault, and Yann Algan. "...negative emotions increase support for protectionism, restrictive immigration policies, and redistribution." socialeconomicslab.org/research/wor...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Super interesting! "Population Aging and Business Succession: A Macroeconomic Perspective" by Daisuke Miyakawa, Koki Oikawa, Kozo Ueda "This paper studies how population aging shapes firm dynamics and macroeconomic outcomes through business succession." www.eea-esem-congresses.org/sessions/dem...

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Inclusive Productivity Network @prodmon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Super interesting! "Organisational capital, ICT and productivity in the digital age" by Filippo Bontadini, Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, and Guiseppe Nicoletti. www.productivity.ac.uk/research/org...

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