Super interesting!
"The Economic Impacts of AI: A Multidisciplinary, Multibook Review" by Kevin A. Bryan.
Journal of Economic Literature:
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Ungated version:
www.kevinbryanecon.com/BryanAIBookR...
@prodmon.bsky.social
The Swiss Inclusive Productivity Network analyzes productivity developments and intends to help develop measures to foster inclusive productivity.
Super interesting!
"The Economic Impacts of AI: A Multidisciplinary, Multibook Review" by Kevin A. Bryan.
Journal of Economic Literature:
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Ungated version:
www.kevinbryanecon.com/BryanAIBookR...
Wow, highly relevant!
"Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship" by Tristan L. Botelho, Daniel C. Fehder, and Yael V. Hochberg.
Journal of Economic Literature:
www.aeaweb.org/articles/pdf...
Working paper:
tristanbotelho.com/files/Botelh...
Highly recommended!
Nick Bloom on "The Impact of AI on US Productivity" (Nick Bloom joined Markus Brunnermeier for a session of the Markusβ Academy)
bcf.princeton.edu/events/nick-...
Super interesting!
"Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation" by Mert Demirer, John J. Horton, Nicole Immorlica, Brendan Lucier, and Peyman Shahidi.
www.nber.org/papers/w34859
This looks like a must-read!
"Building Pro-Worker Artificial Intelligence" by Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson.
www.nber.org/papers/w34854
Highly relevant!
"Valuation of Regulatory Risk on Pharmaceutical R&D" by Teresa Corzo Santamaria, Jose Portela, and Eduardo S. Schwartz.
www.nber.org/papers/w34863
Highly relevant!
"A New U.S. Productivity Chapter? What Industry Data Say About AI" by Nida ΓakΔ±r Melek and Sydney Miller.
www.kansascityfed.org/research/eco...
Our Updates & Insights 2026! #3
Our new AI Labor Market Observatory and much more...
open.substack.com/pub/incprodm...
Super interesting!
"Europe Falling Behind: Structural Transformation and Labor Productivity Growth Differences Between Europe and the U.S." by Cesare Buiatti, Joao B. Duarte, and Luis Felipe Saenz.
jbduarte.com/files/BDS202...
Highly relevant!
"World Intellectual Property Report" by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
"For new technologies to fulfill their potential, they must be adopted and used effectively by firms and households."
www.wipo.int/en/web/world...
Super interesting!
"Firm Data on AI" by Ivan Yotzov, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Steven J. Davis, Kevin M. Foster, Aaron Jalca, Brent H. Meyer, Paul Mizen, Michael A. Navarrete, Pawel Smietanka, Gregory Thwaites, and Ben Zhe Wang.
www.nber.org/papers/w34836
Highly relevant!
"Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change in 50 Questions and Answers" by Hannah Ritchie.
amzn.to/4qHfsAr
Food for thought!
"Why Sweden has so many unicorns: Europeβs problem is not the lack of venture capital" by Luis Garicano.
www.siliconcontinent.com/p/why-sweden...
Productivity Treasure Trove - What caught our attention (selection): Early scientific leadership, government venture capital, safety and resilience in a world of growing tensions, and much moreβ¦
open.substack.com/pub/incprodm...
Wow, really cool!
"VIRENA: Virtual Arena for Research, Education, and Democratic Innovation" by Hoes, Klueser, and Gilardi.
"VIRENA makes possible research designs that were previously impractical: studying human--AI interaction in realistic social contexts"
arxiv.org/abs/2602.12207
Really cool or really bad? In any case, a super interesting experiment!
"The Journal for AI Generated Papers"
"A dedicated platform for AI-generated research, fostering collaboration between human prompters and AI systems."
jaigp.org
Super interesting!
"Climate change, catastrophes, insurance and the macroeconomy" by Margherita Giuzio, Linda RousovΓ‘, Sujit Kapadia, Hradayesh Kumar, Luisa Mazzotta, Miles Parker, and Dimitris Zafeiris.
www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpw...
An AI-Labor-Market Observatory β Just in Case
"Artificial intelligence is here to stay and will have a profound long-term impact on our society and economy. Just in case, we should engage even more than before with various scenarios..."
open.substack.com/pub/incprodm...
Highly relevant!
"Why is Europe lagging behind in high tech sectors? The role of institutional and regulatory quality" by Jonathan Bothner, Paloma Lopez-Garcia, Daphne Momferatou, and Ralph Setzer.
www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpw...
Highly recommended!
"What if Labor Becomes Unnecessary?" Round Table with David Autor, Anton Korinek, and Natasha Sarin (hosted by David Leonhardt).
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
Highly relevant!
"Global Labor Mobility between Shrinking and Growing Labor Forces" by Lant Pritchett.
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
Super interesting!
"Younger Firms and CEOs Allow More Work from Home" by Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Katelyn Cranney, Steven Davis, Mathias Dolls, and Pablo Zarate.
static1.squarespace.com/static/5e2ea...
Food for thought!
"Looking for the Ladder: Is AI Impacting Entry-Level Jobs?" by Zanna Iscenko and Fabien Curto Millet.
eig.org/wp-content/u...
Highly interesting!
"The software complexity of nations" by SΓ‘ndor JuhΓ‘sz, Johannes Wachs, Jermain Kaminski, and CΓ©sar A. Hidalgo.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This looks like a must-read!
"A.I. and Our Economic Future" by Charles I. Jones
"What if machines β A.I. for cognitive tasks and A.I. plus advanced robots for physical tasks β can perform every task a human can do but more cheaply?"
web.stanford.edu/~chadj/AIand...
Highly recommended!
"Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Growth Explosion" by Jones, Tonetti
"Two key findings emerge. First, automation leads economic growth to accelerate over the next 75 years. Second, the acceleration is remarkably slow."
web.stanford.edu/~chadj/Jones...
Highly relevant!
"The Virtuous Cycle Between Skills and Technology" by Sascha O. Becker, Christian Dustmann, and Hyejin Ku.
www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
Highly relevant!
"The first 1000 days and beyond: The process of child development" by Orazio Attanasio.
www.nber.org/papers/w34651
Super interesting!
"Renewable Energy Expansion: Key Challenges and Emerging Opportunities" by Koichiro Ito.
"This article reviews recent economic studies and identifies three central challenges and corresponding opportunities for scaling up renewable energy..."
www.nber.org/papers/w34644
Highly relevant!
"How to AI-proof your job: The data suggests soft skills more than quantitative competency equal success in a rapidly changing labour market" by John Burn-Murdoch.
www.ft.com/content/5e25...