Innovation and Technology
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Cutting through the AI noise
There’s a lot of speculation about how AI will reshape the U.S. economy. A recent SIEPR Policy Forum convened experts to delve into what’s actually happening and what’s coming next.
December 04, 2025
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An economist asked, how much should we spend to avoid the A.I. apocalypse?
The New York Times highlights research by SIEPR Senior Fellow Charles "Chad" Jones into how much money the government would have to spend to mitigate AI's existential threat.
November 15, 2025
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ADP rolls out weekly jobs US payrolls after halting data to Fed
Bloomberg reports that, amid the federal government shutdown, ADP will now release weekly jobs data, compiled with SIEPR Senior Fellow Erik Brynjolfsson's Digital Economy Lab.
October 28, 2025
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Is the AI boom an AI bubble?
Jared Bernstein, SIEPR policy fellow and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, appears on NPR to talk about why he thinks the AI investment frenzy could end badly.
October 16, 2025
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Warning: Our stock market is looking like a bubble
It's time to call artificial intelligence the third bubble of the century, argue SIEPR's Jared Bernstein and Ryan Cummings in a New York Times op-ed.
October 14, 2025
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It’s jobs Friday without a jobs number: Here’s where to look for alternatives
The Wall Street Journal highlights, given the government shutdown, a monthly jobs report produced by SIEPR Senior Fellow Erik Brynjolfsson's Digital Economy Lab and ADP.
October 03, 2025
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We really want to trust crypto interests with the future of money?
In a New York Times op-ed, SIEPR Senior Fellow Amit Seru explains why pending federal legislation favoring privately-issued digital currencies is bad policy.
September 29, 2025
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A contracting population need not be a catastrophe
The Economist cites work by SIEPR's Chad Jones and Nick Bloom in suggesting that AI could offset one potential downside to a shrinking world: fewer new ideas.
September 11, 2025
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Competition law won't break up Big Tech
SIEPR's Mark Lemley, in a Financial Times op-ed, advocates for antitrust policies that prevent monopolists from forming in the first place.
September 08, 2025
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Workers aren't getting what they want from AI
SIEPR's Erik Brynjolfsson talks with American Public Media's Marketplace Tech about the mismatch between AI's capabilities and workers' needs.
August 25, 2025
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The deeper reason for banking’s retreat
The Economist credits research by SIEPR's Greg Buchak in describing how regulatory red tape only partially explains commercial banking's retreat from traditional lending.
July 31, 2025
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Can markets trust stablecoins?
SIEPR's Amit Seru warns in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the recently passed Genius Act doesn't go far enough in regulating the digital currency known as stablecoins.
July 28, 2025
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Study: Advertisers win, users lose in an Instagram spin-off
Meta could be forced to sell Instagram if a court rules it’s an illegal monopoly. New Stanford research into likely advertising effects suggests a split wouldn’t be good for users.
July 14, 2025
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The new age of geoeconomics
The Financial Times features SIEPR's Matteo Maggiori and his Global Capital Allocation Project in a story about how the U.S. and China are turning to economic warfare.
July 11, 2025
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When companies love (not hate) high-tax countries
New research from SIEPR’s Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato explores what happens when U.S. multinationals shift costs from lower-tax countries back to the U.S. to reduce their taxes.
June 25, 2025
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A new tool for sizing up the US economy
The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and MIT have developed a tool that makes it easier for journalists, policymakers and others to spot trends in the U.S. economy.
June 17, 2025
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San Francisco wants to use AI to save itself from bureaucracy
Politico features work by SIEPR's Daniel Ho and his RegLab to use AI to weed out "policy sludge" in the city's municipal code.
June 05, 2025
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Scoping the trade war: New tool tracks company responses to tariffs, economic threats
SIEPR’s Antonio Coppola and Matteo Maggiori leverage AI to develop a way of measuring how companies are reacting to President Trump’s tariffs and other forms of economic pressure.
May 09, 2025
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Can quitting social media temporarily boost well-being?
The Hill interviews SIEPR’s Hunt Allcott about his new social media detox study. SIEPR Senior Fellow Matthew Gentzkow is a co-author of the research.
May 02, 2025
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Companies are struggling to drive a Return on AI. It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way.
The Wall Street Journal quotes SIEPR’s Erik Brynjolfsson on the “productivity paradox,” where improvements in AI capabilities haven’t led to a corresponding surge in productivity.
April 26, 2025