📖 Excited to be checking the proofs for my new book:

"Data Science MBA:
Big Data, Digitalization, and Strategy; with applications in R"

Published by Springer

Coming out before the end of 2025!

If your library has a deal with Springer, it will be free to download the PDF

U.S. regions more exposed to AI saw faster emissions growth, more reliance on fossil fuels, and dirtier electricity generation.
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Firms constrained by H-1B visa limits respond with more acquisitions—especially small, job-related, domestic deals—substituting talent with transactions, from Jens Friedmann, Britta Glennon, and Exequiel Hernandez https://www.nber.org/papers/w34248

Useful for understanding what people actually use LLMs for.

(Also, 10% of the world population has an account!)

Today, I am excited to release a paper that has been five years in the making, titled “Endogenous Firm Ownership in General Equilibrium.” I think it is the best thing I have done. www.nber.org/papers/w34187

Forthcoming in the AER: "Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillovers, and Industrial Quality Upgrading: Evidence from the Chinese Auto Industry" by Jie Bai, Panle Jia Barwick, Shengmao Cao, and Shanjun Li. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share.

Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*.

I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind.

github.com/bretthollenb...

Agricultural technology development is biased toward rich-world environmental conditions, underlying massive global disparities in technology diffusion and productivity, from Jacob Moscona and Karthik A. Sastry https://www.nber.org/papers/w33500

The role of a high-speed rail system on China's EV adoption, from Hanming Fang, Ming Li, Long Wang, and Zoe Yang https://www.nber.org/papers/w33489

📢📢Research Policy 9th online conference for Early Career Researchers!

Fri 25th April 2025, 2-4pm (UK time)

Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 23rd March

Link:
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This paper seems relevant for anyone who looks at these numbers

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

Aggregating across industries in the US economy, [AI] totals an increase in energy consumption of 28 PJ per year, or around 0.03% of energy use per year in the US.