Highly recommended!

"Experimental Economics: Theory and Practice" by John A. List.

amzn.to/4cEqylR

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"The Macroeconomic Effects of AI Uncertainty" by Juan Reyes.

Working paper:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

AI Uncertainty (AIU) Index:
juanrufinoreyes.owlstown.net/pages

Blog post:
www.escoe.ac.uk/why-ai-uncer...

Economists Once Dismissed the A.I. Job Threat, but Not Anymore

Food for thought!

"Economists Once Dismissed the A.I. Job Threat, but Not Anymore" by Ben Casselman.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/b...

How AI may reshape career pathways to better jobs | Brookings

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"How AI may reshape career pathways to better jobs" by Justin Heck, Mark Muro, Shriya Methkupally, and Joseph Siegmund.

"AI is poised to erode the pathways workers use to transition from low- to higher-wage work."

www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

Super interesting!

"What Makes New Work Different from More Work?" by David Autor, Caroline Chin, Anna M. Salomons, Bryan Seegmiller.

"new work serves as a countervailing force to automation...by generating new domains of human expertise that command market premiums."

www.nber.org/papers/w34986

Food for thought!

"Attention (And Money) Is All You Need: Why Universities Are Struggling to Keep AI Talent" by Ufuk Akcigit, Craig A. Chikis, Emin Dinlersoz, and Nathan Goldschlag

www.nber.org/papers/w34964

Super interesting!

"Artificial Intelligence, Productivity, and the Workforce: Evidence from Corporate Executives" by Salomé Baslandze, Zachary Edwards, John Graham, Ty McClure, Michael Sparks, Brent Meyer, Sonya Waddell, and Daniel Weitz.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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"Disruption without dividend? - How the digital divide and task differences split GenAI’s global impact" by Paweł Gmyrek, Mariana Viollaz, and Hernan Winkler.

www.ilo.org/sites/defaul...

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"Same Storm, Different Boats: Generative AI and the Age Gradient in Hiring" by Magnus Lodefalk, Lydia Löthman, Michael Koch, and Erik Engberg.

ratio.se/publikatione...

Why investors won’t know what to make of AI for a while Stock markets struggle to price artificial intelligence's impact, with Goldman Sachs indices showing AI-vulnerable firms down 20% while beneficiaries fall 5%.

Food for thought!

"Why investors won’t know what to make of AI for a while: Markets always struggle to price technological revolutions" (The Economist)

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Research on AI and the labor market is still in the first inning Since the widespread introduction of large language models (LLMs), there has been a wave of research and a deluge of predictions about what artificial intelligence (AI) will mean for the labor market,...

Food for thought!

"Research on AI and the labor market is still in the first inning" by Jed Kolko.

"all the important questions about AI's effects on the labor market are still unanswered."

www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

Super interesting!

"Task-Specific Technical Change and Comparative Advantage" by Lukas Althoff and Hugo Reichardt.

"Our key finding is that AI substantially reduces wage inequality while raising average wages by 21 percent."

hugoreichardt.com/pdf/tstc_com...

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"The Changing Landscape of International Development: An Introduction" by Pascaline Dupas, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, and Rohini Pande.

www.nber.org/papers/w34943

Food for thought!

"The EU’s Energy Transition" by Carton, Dolphin, Duval, Hodge, Kara, Voigts, and Wende.

"the EU’s energy transition only has modest macroeconomic impacts if it combines carbon pricing and green subsidies."

www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journal...

Super interesting!

"The Skill Premium in Times of Rapid Technological Change" by Tarek Alexander Hassan, Aakash Kalyani, and Pascual Restrepo.

"This paper shows that the pace of technology creation is a key driver of the skill premium."

www.nber.org/papers/w34939

Super interesting!

"Market Feedback about Emerging Technologies" by Sean S. Cao, Itay Goldstein, Jie He, and Yabo Zhao.

www.nber.org/papers/w34940

Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Food for thought!

"Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence" by Maxim Massenkoff and Peter McCrory.

"...we find no impact on unemployment rates for workers in the most exposed occupations..."

www.anthropic.com/research/lab...

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"The agentic AI landscape and its conceptual foundations" (OECD)

www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

AI and the distribution of income between capital and labour The swift rise of artificial intelligence is raising fundamental concerns about the future of work. This column uses data from 238 regions across 21 European countries to examine how AI-related innova...

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"AI and the distribution of income between capital and labour" by Antonio Minniti, Klaus Prettner, Francesco Venturini, and David Bloom.

cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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"Digitalization, Change in Skill Distance Between Occupations and Occupational Mobility" by Arnaud Dupuy, Morgan Raux, and Sara Signorelli.

www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

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"AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse" by Daron Acemoglu, Dingwen Kong, Asuman Ozdaglar.

"We study how generative AI, and in particular agentic AI, shapes human learning incentives and the long-run evolution of society’s information ecosystem."

www.nber.org/papers/w34910

Tech Has Never Caused a Job Apocalypse. Don’t Bet on It Now. Neither theory, history nor the latest data suggests a recession driven by AI job dislocation is likely.

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"Tech Has Never Caused a Job Apocalypse. Don’t Bet on It Now" by Greg Ip.

"Neither theory, history nor the latest data suggests a recession driven by AI job dislocation is likely"

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

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"Chad Jones & Chris Tonetti on Past Automation and Future AI: How Weak Links Tame the Growth Explosion" (Markus’ Academy with Markus Brunnermeier)

Conversation:
bcf.princeton.edu/events/chad-...

Working paper:
web.stanford.edu/%7Echadj/Jon...

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 Markus’ 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

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"Valuation of Regulatory Risk on Pharmaceutical R&D" by Teresa Corzo Santamaria, Jose Portela, and Eduardo S. Schwartz.

www.nber.org/papers/w34863

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"A New U.S. Productivity Chapter? What Industry Data Say About AI" by Nida Çakır Melek and Sydney Miller.

www.kansascityfed.org/research/eco...