Innovation and Technology

"The privacy technology isn’t ready for a digital dollar. Meanwhile, there’s a lot the U.S. can do to improve the existing payment system," explains SIEPR's Darrell Duffie.

“The number of person-days in the office is never going back to pre-pandemic average, ever," says SIEPR's Nick Bloom. Read more about the remote work revolution via The Atlantic.

Despite the productivity promises of A.I. technologies, actual efficiency gains are unlikely to be immediate, reports Inc Magazine. SIEPR's Erik Brynjolfsson weighs in.

"The pandemic is the biggest shock to American working life since the shift to military production during WWII," writes SIEPR's Nick Bloom for The Los Angeles Times.

Data show we can expect 30% to 40% of workdays to be remote, long after the pandemic is over, reports Bloomberg News. Research by SIEPR's Nick Bloom is cited.

In this podcast by the Los Angeles Times, SIEPR's Nick Bloom shines a light on the emergence of employee surveillance technology in the age of remote work.

Recent research underlines the central role that automation has played in widening disparities, reports The New York Times. SIEPR's Erik Brynjolfsson is mentioned.

As the issue of climate change becomes more pressing and the lack of real political progress grows more apparent, research by SIEPR's Susan Athey is paving the way for change.

CNBC explores how to address the twin challenges of a labor shortage and the Great Resignation. SIEPR's Nick Bloom weighs in.

A recent Reuters poll of climate economists shows that hitting the Paris Agreement goal of net-zero carbon emissions will require sizable investments in a green transition.

Research by SIEPR's Susan Athey and Nicholas Bloom is cited in "The Economist": Has the pandemic has given economists a new lease of life?