Modern industrial robots can perform a variety of repetitive tasks with consistent precision
and are increasingly used in a wide range of industries and applications. The global …

This paper investigates the role of digitialization in improving economic resilience. Using
balance sheet data from 24,000 firms in 75 countries, and a difference-in-differences approach, …

We construct daily databases of crypto bans and policy statements concerning central bank
digital currencies (CBDCs) to estimate their effect on crypto trading volumes for an …

We examine the impact of the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) on hiring and wages
in firms in the service sector using a novel dataset of 15 million vacancy posts from India's …

This paper exploits China's accession to the WTO to investigate the impact of a supply
shock on quality across the Indian production network. After controlling for increased import …

We investigate the substantial variation in the extent to which a rise in value-added tax (VAT)
is passed on to consumers. We first extend existing theory to characterize the roles of …

This thesis consists of four self-contained essays in applied microeconomics. The first exploits
China’s accession to the WTO to investigate the impact on Indian manufacturing firms of …

This paper investigates the role of digitialization in improving economic resilience. Using
balance sheet data from 24,000 firms in 75 countries, and a difference-in-differences approach, …

We investigate the substantial variation in the extent to which a rise in value-added tax (VAT)
is passed on to consumers. We first extend existing theory to characterize the roles of …

Multi-modal deep learning systems recently showed strong performance on the image
captioning task (Karpathy and Li, 2015). At the same time, however, some more detailed …