Innovation and Technology
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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
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The government wants you to get paid not to use Google search
A novel experiment by SIEPR's Hunt Allcott and Matt Gentzkow suggests that Google’s monopoly can be tamed with habit-altering tactics.
April 25, 2025
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Large-scale investment in research needed to maintain US agriculture
SIEPR Senior Fellow David Lobell examines how U.S. agriculture productivity has been declining amid impacts of climate change and estimates the public R&D needed to reverse course.
March 14, 2025
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‘Living off the land’ doesn’t mean what it used to
The threat of cyberwarfare is more real than ever. At the 2025 SIEPR Economic Summit, ex-government insiders talked about the dangers — and what to do about them.
March 06, 2025
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Google’s ‘radical rethink’
At the 2025 SIEPR Economic Summit, Alphabet President Ruth Porat delved into what artificial intelligence means for companies, governments, and U.S. standing in the world.
March 06, 2025
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The next battleground in antitrust? AI
Ensuring a level playing field in high-tech has never been easy for antitrust regulators and enforcers. Speakers at the 2025 SIEPR Economic Summit say AI will make it harder.
March 06, 2025
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SIEPR launches survey of Californians on the economy and government
The first California Economic Survey found residents were more upbeat about the economy, immigration and AI than the U.S. overall at year end. Will wildfires and Trump change that?
February 07, 2025
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Contributions of SIEPR scholars in the Economic Report of the President
The 2025 report tapped the work of our scholars in its assessment of pressing economic policy issues ranging from global financial markets to remote work.
February 03, 2025
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Q&A: A new report on “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work”
The report, requested by Congress and co-chaired by SIEPR’s Erik Brynjolfsson and Carnegie Mellon’s Tom Mitchell, examines workforce implications of AI.
December 13, 2024
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AI boot camp brings Sacramento policymakers to Stanford
California officials dealing with AI policy engaged with the university’s leading experts on economics, public policy, regulation and technology.
December 09, 2024
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EPA reports another record year for fuel efficiency ahead of Trump's return.
Newsweek reports on work by SIEPR’s Hunt Allcott that estimates electric car sales could fall 27% if consumers lose a $7,500 federal tax credit.
November 27, 2024
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American innovation got slammed by the “temporary” end of a key tax incentive
A tax rule that was never supposed to go into effect has led U.S. companies to slash their R&D spending, SIEPR Senior Fellow Rebecca Lester finds.
October 25, 2024
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Researchers tap AI to identify racial restrictions in millions of property records
SIEPR’s Daniel Ho and fellow researchers trained a large language model that paves the way for faster, more accurate compliance with California’s anti-discrimination law.
October 18, 2024
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Two beers, a pandemic, and a workplace revolution
Stanford economists Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis recognized early on in the pandemic that working from home is here to stay. Their insights continue to shape the future of work.
October 01, 2024
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Can global supply chains be fixed?
The pandemic exposed deep flaws in the sourcing and delivery of goods and services worldwide. SIEPR's Matthew Jackson explains what’s wrong and what needs to be done now.
September 12, 2024