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In his keynote address for NBER’s conference on “Megafirms and the Post-COVID Economy”, Professor Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics, explained how traditional regulation and antitrust rules are ineffective in addressing the unique issues arising from the growth of digital platforms.
November 7, 2022
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“Procurement” is the process by which governments choose to obtain and buy goods and services from the private sector.
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“Because technology such as artificial intelligence moves so quickly, it’s hard for the government to keep up. We have to figure out how all branches of government are going to be prepared to guide us through a different age” — Susan Athey, Professor of Economics and Technology, Stanford University
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Current methods fail to capture the value of new and free goods to national productivity. A new framework, GDP-B, better measures the benefits of these goods.
March 1, 2019
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