Tech ads at the Super Bowl offered a shiny — or is it dark? — vision of the future
James Bessen quoted in The Washington Post, February 14, 2022.
James Bessen quoted in The Washington Post, February 14, 2022.
James Bessen’s research mentioned in The Economist, December 4, 2021.
James Bessen quoted in The Washington Post, November 26, 2021.
James Bessen’s research cited in The Quartz Weekend Brief Email, November 13, 2021.
James Bessen quoted in The Washington Post, October 15, 2021.
James Bessen, Erich Denk, Joowon Kim, Cesare Righi
This paper reports the first recent estimates of trends in the displacement of industry-leading firms. Displacement hazards rose for several decades since 1970 but have declined sharply since 2000. Using a production function-based model to explore the role of investments, acquisitions, and lobbying, we find that investments by dominant firms in intangibles, especially software, are distinctly associated with greater persistence and reduced leapfrogging.
James Bessen quoted in Full Stack Economics on the adoption of new technology and its impact on workers.
James Bessen, Stephen Michael Impink, Lydia Reichensperger, and Robert Seamans
Results from TPRI’s 2021 AI Ethics survey shed light on how startups approach the uncertain landscape of ethics and Artificial Intelligence.
James Bessen and Erich Denk
New research finding that firm size, productivity dispersion, and large firm investments in intangibles can account for much of the decline in the response to productivity since 2000, and that industry concentration is directly related to aggregate productivity growth.
James Bessen, Erich Denk, and Chen Meng
New research explaining the role of proprietary software investment in the rise in skill sorting and wage inequality.