Barcelona Macroeconomics Summer School 2001

MACROECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

Instructor: Gilles Saint-Paul
 
 

READING LIST

 
Rosen, Sherwin (1981), ''The Economics of Superstars'', American Economic Review; 71(5), 845-58.
 
Rosen, Sherwin (1982), ''Authority, Control, and the Distribution of Earnings'' Bell Journal of Economics; 13(2), 311-23.

 
Jorgenson, Dale, "Information technology and the U.S. Economy", Presidential address, AEA, 2001
 

Krueger, Allan (1993), ''Have computers changed the wage structure?'', Quarterly Journal of Economics

Autor, David, Lawrence Katz, and Alan Krueger, ''Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?'' Quarterly Journal of Economics;
113(4), 1169-1213.

Beaudry, Paul and David Green, "Wages and employment in the US and Germany: What explains the difference ?", mimeo, U. British Columbia

Doms, Mark, Timothy Dunne, and Kenneth R. Troske (1997), ''Workers, Wages and Technology'', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112, 1, 253-290
 
Entorf, Horst, Michel Gollac, and Francis Kramarz (1999), ''New Technologies, Wages, and Worker Selection'', Journal of Labor Economics, 17, 3, 1999.
 

Greenwood, J. and B. Jovanovic, "The IT revolution and the stock market", American Economic Review, May 1999

Greenwood, J. and M. Yorukoglu, "1974", Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1997

Hobijn, B. and B. Jovanovic, "The IT revolution and the stock market: evidence", NBER WP 7684, May 2000
 

Acemoglu, D. "Why do new technologies complement skills? Directed technical change and wage inequality", Quarterly Journal of Economics, Nov. 1998

-------------, "Changes in unemployment and wage inequality: an alternative theory and some evidence", American Economic Review, Dec. 1999

Bresnahan, T. and M. Trajtenberg, "General purpose technologies: engines of growth ?" Journal of  Econometrics, 65, 1995

Bresnahan, T., E. Brynjolfson, and L.M.Hitt, "Information technology, workplace organization, and the demand for skilled labor",  NBER WP 7136, May 1999

Krusell, P., L. Ohanian, J.V. Rios-Rull, G. Violante, "Capital-skill complementarity and inequality", Econometrica, 2000

Zeira, J., "Workers, machines, and economic growth", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1998

Caselli, F. "Technological Revolutions", American Economic Review, March 1999

Saint-Paul, G. "On the distribution of income and worker assignment under intra-firm spillovers, with an application to ideas and networks", Journal of Political
Economy, 2001

Saint-Paul, G. "Information technology and the knowledge elite", working paper, Toulouse U. and CEPR, February 2001

Quah, D., "Internet cluster emergence", European Economic Review, 2000
 
De Long,  J.B., and A.M. Froomkin, "Speculative Microeconomics for Tomorrow's Economy",  http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/

Mishel, Lawrence and Jared Bernstein (1994), ''Is the technology black box empty? An empirical examination of the impact of technology on wage inequality and
the employment structure'',Economic Policy Institute WP \#217, 1994. [http://www.lights.com/epi/virlib/Technical/1994/isthetechnology.PDF]

Howell, David R., Margaret Duncan and Bennett Harrison (1998), ''Low wages in the US and high unemployment in Europe: A critical assessment of the
conventional wisdom'', Center of Economic Policy Analysis working paper \#5, 1998.