How can robots affect wage inequality?

C Lankisch, K Prettner, A Prskawetz - Economic Modelling, 2019 - Elsevier
We explain the simultaneous presence of i) increasing per capita output, ii) declining real
wages of low-skilled workers, and iii) a rising wage premium of higher education within a …

The economic burden of chronic diseases: estimates and projections for China, Japan, and South Korea

DE Bloom, S Chen, M Kuhn, ME McGovern… - The Journal of the …, 2020 - Elsevier
We propose a novel framework to analyze the macroeconomic impact of non-communicable
diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented …

[HTML][HTML] Automation and population growth: Theory and cross-country evidence

AL Abeliansky, K Prettner - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023 - Elsevier
We analyse the relationship between declining population growth and automation.
Theoretical considerations imply that countries with lower population growth introduce …

Optimal taxation and R&D policies

U Akcigit, D Hanley, S Stantcheva - Econometrica, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We study the optimal design of corporate taxation and R&D policies as a dynamic
mechanism design problem with spillovers. Firms have heterogeneous research …

Spillovers in the production of knowledge: A meta-regression analysis

PC Neves, TN Sequeira - Research Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
The production of knowledge was subjected to quantitative analysis in the second half of the
twentieth century, following Arrow (1962). The determinants of knowledge and the …

Technological unemployment revisited: automation in a search and matching framework

D Cords, K Prettner - Oxford Economic Papers, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Will automation raise unemployment and what is the role of education in this context? To
answer these questions, we propose a search and matching model of the labour market with …

Why it pays off to pay us well: The impact of basic research on economic growth and welfare

K Prettner, K Werner - Research Policy, 2016 - Elsevier
We analyze the growth and welfare effects of governmental basic research investments in
an R&D-based growth model with endogenous fertility and endogenous education. In line …

Longevity and technological change

A Gehringer, K Prettner - Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2019 - cambridge.org
We analyze the impact of increasing longevity on technological progress within an
overlapping generations research and development (R&D)-based growth framework and …

Pension systems revisited in the age of automation and an aging economy

JY Kim, D Lee - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024 - Elsevier
This study analyzes the impact of aging—an increase in longevity or a decrease in fertility
rates—on pension benefits in an economy that incorporates automation capital in the …

Inflation and growth: A non-monotonic relationship in an innovation-driven economy

Z Zheng, CY Huang, Y Yang - Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2021 - cambridge.org
This paper investigates the effects of monetary policy on long-run economic growth via
different cash-in-advance (CIA) constraints on R&D in a Schumpeterian growth model with …