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  • Green AI in Industry: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Water Treatment Sector

    • AI

    • Climate

    • Energy

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  • Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth

    • AI

    • Growth

    This paper examines the potential impact of artificial intelligence (A.I.) on economic growth. We model A.I. as the latest form of automation, a broader process dating back more than 200 years. Electricity, internal combustion engines, and semiconductors facilitated automation in the last century, but A.I. now seems poised to automate many tasks once thought to […]

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  • Artificial Intelligence, Growth and Employment: The Role of Policy

    • AI

    • Automation

    • Employment

    • Growth

    • Policy

    • Publication

    In this survey paper, we argue that the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation on growth and employment depend to a large extent on institutions and policies. We develop a two-fold analysis. In a first section, we survey the most recent literature to show that AI can spur growth by replacing labor by capital, […]

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    December 2019

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  • How Different Uses of AI Shape Labor Demand: Evidence from France

    • AI

    • Employment

    • Productivity

    • Publication

    Using French firm-level data on AI adoption from 2017–2020, we find that, first, firms adopting AI are larger and more productive and skill intensive. Second, difference-in-difference estimates reveal an increase in firm-level employment and sales after AI adoption, suggesting that the induced productivity gains allow firms to grow and outweigh potential displacement effects. Third, occupations […]

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    May 2025

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  • The Direct and Indirect Effects of Automation on Employment: A Survey of the Recent Literature

    • AI

    • Employment

    • Growth

    • Policy

    • Working Paper

    In this article, we survey the recent literature and discuss two contrasting views on the direct and indirectimpacts of automation on employment. A first view predicts that firms that automation reduceemployment (a negative “direct effect”), even if this may ultimately result in new job creations takingadvantage of the lower equilibrium wage induced by job destructions […]

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    2022