TPRI’s Faculty Director, Dr. Rena Conti, will be presenting at Yale University’s Solomon Center’s 04/15 event. For more information, please see below.

Nice to have J. Hunt (Rutgers University) presenting at USI Lugano - Department of Economics today! The study, joint work with James Bessen & Iain Cockburn (@BU_Tweets), investigates if #AI job growth is slower in #US areas farther from #innovation hotspots. Distance seems to be a barrier to #adoption 💡🤖
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This month’s newsletter features new research by Filippo Mezzanotti and Timothy Simcoe, research articles by James Bessen and Dr. Rena Conti, Call for submissions: The 2024 IQVIA Institute Research Forum, a Research Policy Call for Papers, plus seminars. mailchi.mp/71f302153944/n…

TPRI’s February 2024 newsletter features new research by Leo Sveikauskas and coauthors, an article by Keith Ericson, a paper by James Bessen, Erich Denk and Chen Meng plus a Research Policy Call for Papers and 2024 seminars.mailchi.mp/d1d1a7a34810/n…

When does technology help society and when does it harm? What policies change its direction? Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 has an excellent discussion in a review of Acemoglu-Johnson 'Power and Progress' noahpinion.blog/p/book-review-…

Excellent book review by Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

Noah understands technology and progress and Acemoglu and Johnson do not. It’s that simple.

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Declining code quality seems disturbing

Our (Erich Denk Technology & Policy Research Initiative Chen Meng) paper on salary history bans is finally published link.springer.com/article/10.100…

In Memoriam: With great sadness we share news of the passing of Distinguished & Chancellor’s Prof. of Law Dan L. Burk.

A founding faculty member of UCI Law & the first Chancellor’s Prof. at the Law School, Prof. Burk passed away on Sunday, February 4.

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TPRI’s January 2024 newsletter features new research by Sabrina Genz, research articles by @contirena1and Timothy Simcoe, a new TPRI Faculty Fellow, Samantha Zyontz and GEIRC Conference’s Call for Papers plus seminars and events! mailchi.mp/3b6a79c90ab1/n…

My paper with Christian Helmers and Yassine Lefouili examining the frequency and determinants of opportunistic conduct (i.e., hold up) by SEP enforcers was published last week by the American Law & Economics Review academic.oup.com/aler/advance-a…

Big congrats to Debra lederman The Wharton School on this piece! UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy Questrom School of Business, Boston University