
The Big Tech Threat?
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Eric Posner, Chad Syverson
The expanding market influence of tech companies has sparked new fear of an old economic...
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Technology & Innovation

Deep Dive Series – The Future of Money?
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Eric Budish, Brian Platz, Yuval Rooz, Luigi Zingales
If use of cash continues to wane, will cryptocurrency be the new dollar bill? Is...
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Technology & Innovation
A Global View of Creative Destruction
Trade policy has recently been in the news, with the focus on the costs to firms from higher prices due to trade tariffs. However, the focus on the effect of tariffs on prices misses perhaps the most important benefit from international trade: the transmission of ideas.
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Industrial Organization, Technology & Innovation
Synergizing Ventures
In the early days of Microsoft, Bill Gates and Paul Allen did not need investors’...
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Employment & Wages, Industrial Organization, Technology & Innovation
Empirical Trends That Inform Decreasing US Business Dynamism
Panel 1a is taken from Andrews et al. (2016), Panel 1b from Decker et al....
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Financial Markets, Technology & Innovation
What Happened to US Business Dynamism?
Competition, whether in sports or in the arts or in business, can spur players to perform better than they otherwise would. Take two runners, for example; if there is a large gap between the two, then the one falling behind is likely to slow down since there is no hope for winning, while the one in the lead may also relax as victory is ensured. In both cases, neither is performing as well as she could.
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Technology & Innovation
Uber Mexico: Share of Cash by City
For numerous cities in Mexico, either a share of the fare (depicted in light yellow)...
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Technology & Innovation
Uber Mexico: More Education = Less Cash Usage
In the state of Mexico, the more education a person has, the less likely they...
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Technology & Innovation