Innovation and Technology

SIEPR Senior Fellow Nick Bloom appears on the Financial Times podcast "The Economics Show," where he addresses a broad range of issues about AI and its current and future effects on economic productivity, employee hiring processes, and approaches to student learning.

Amit Seru, SIEPR senior fellow, writes in Barron's that the Federal Reserve's quest for independent evaluations of its core operations overlooked one critical area: financial stability.

In The New York Times, pioneering AI research methods by SIEPR Senior Fellow Daniel Ho and his Stanford RegLab team are featured in a story about a New York State initiative to cut through red tape across government agencies.

Joshua Rauh, SIEPR senior fellow, argues in a New York Times op-ed against a California ballot initiative to levy a one-time tax on the state's resident billionaires.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Erik Brynjolfsson and tools developed by his Stanford Digital Economy Lab are featured in a Fortune Magazine story on the raging debate over AI's impacts on the labor market.

Matteo Maggiori, SIEPR senior fellow, explains the return of economic competition among powerful countries and predicts it will shape the next decades of international relations, in the latest issue of the International Monetary Fund's Finance & Development magazine.

SIEPR’s Darrell Duffie tells The Economist that, even if the Federal Reserve starts to play a smaller role in financial markets, the central bank will step in to avert a crisis. “But even with all guns blazing it can’t stop Treasury-market dysfunction. It can only make it less bad," Duffie said.

Scott Wallsten, a new SIEPR policy fellow and president of the Technology Policy Institute, uses his experience building a retirement-planning tool to show how AI is reducing the time and cost from idea to product, with implications for companies and the intermediaries they typically hire to build custom tools.

Kevin Warsh, confirmed last week as Federal Reserve chair, is wise to reexamine the central bank's models and overall approach as stagflation risks grow, explains SIEPR Senior Fellow John Cochrane in The Washington Post.

New York Times exclusive features findings of the first large study of cellphone bans in U.S. schools, co-authored by SIEPR Senior Fellows Hunt Allcott, Thomas Dee and Matthew Gentzkow.

In a New York Times op-ed, SIEPR Senior Fellow Amit Seru warns that political dysfunction is seeping into American capitalism. Trump's erratic policies are the key reason, but Biden shares some blame, too.

The Financial Times covers a new report by SIEPR's Neale Mahoney and Chad Maisel detailing what they dub the "annoyance economy." Mahoney tells the outlet that AI will likely lead to even more frustration as scams and fees rise.