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Francesco Venturini @franceventurini.bsky.social · Feb 22

Still one month to apply and join the Urbino Summer School 2025. Do not miss this great opportunity

Francesco Venturini @franceventurini.bsky.social · Feb 1

Are you starting your career and eager to explore the foundations and latest advances in Economic Growth & Development Join the Urbino Summer School 2025 @Markus Eberhadt (Nottingham) @Pietro Peretto (Duke)
@Andrea Presbitero (IMF) @urbinoeconomics.bsky.social

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Francesco Venturini @franceventurini.bsky.social · Feb 18

Do capital investment and knowledge transfers matter for income convergence? Yes—but only if the capital intensity of laggards is not too far from the frontier.

See below our new paper with @Carmelo Parello

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Knowledge Gaps, Convergence and Growth

This paper develops a growth framework with international knowledge spillovers driven by learning-by-investing externalities that is able to replicate most styl

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Francesco Venturini @franceventurini.bsky.social · Feb 12

Medical Innovation, Longevity, and Income Growth: Historical Evidence of Nonlinear Effects in Advanced Economies @klausprettner.bsky.social @Antonio Minniti @Michael Kuhn @urbinoeconomics.bsky.social
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Medical innovation, life expectancy, and economic growth

To analyze the causal effects of medical innovation on economic growth, we propose an R&D-based economic growth model with overlapping generations, wherein

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Urbino Economics @urbinoeconomics.bsky.social · Feb 7

Thrilling news!!

2nd Conference on "Health needs and resources: Allocation and Measurement" March 27-28, 2025 @uniurb

Organisation by @fravidoli.bsky.social @Agnese Sacchi

For Info: geu.uniurb.it/health-needs...

#healtheeconomics #healthneeds #healthresources #vulnerablepopulation

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Francesco Venturini @franceventurini.bsky.social · Feb 1

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How China created AI model DeepSeek and shocked the world

Government policies, generous funding and a pipeline of AI graduates have helped Chinese firms create advanced LLMs.

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Francesco Venturini @franceventurini.bsky.social · Feb 1

Are you starting your career and eager to explore the foundations and latest advances in Economic Growth & Development Join the Urbino Summer School 2025 @Markus Eberhadt (Nottingham) @Pietro Peretto (Duke)
@Andrea Presbitero (IMF) @urbinoeconomics.bsky.social

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Francesco Venturini @franceventurini.bsky.social · Feb 1

Great insights talking about AI at @bankofchina.bsky.social London with @ggiombini.bsky.social @urbinoeconomics.bsky.social
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Dr Xuxin Mao, FRM on LinkedIn: #ai #productivity #economy #research

#AI, #Productivity and the Global #Economy. Let us leave Trump 2.0 for a minute and have a #research event on the above important topics! I am happy to have…

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Francesco Venturini @franceventurini.bsky.social · Jan 7

Some interesting insights by Walter Park the role of IP for AI innovation

elgar.blog/2024/10/07/a...

AI and Intellectual Property: Navigating the Future of Innovation - ElgarBlog

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping intellectual property (IP) protection, raising new challenges for innovation and economic growth. AI's dual role in enhancing both imitation and innovation de...

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National Institute of Economic and Social Research @niesrorg.bsky.social · Jan 6

💥 NEW BLOG 💥

In our first #MondayInterview of 2025 ✨ Deputy Director Adrian Pabst speaks to Larissa Marioni about the role Artificial Intelligence can play in narrowing the #productivity gap 📈⬇

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How Artificial Intelligence Could Narrow the Productivity Gap - NIESR

As the United Kingdom seeks to boost productivity through greater public and business investment, what tools can firms use to raise their productivity performance? Our Deputy Director Professor Adrian...

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Francesco Venturini @franceventurini.bsky.social · Dec 1

Interesting reading about AI and politics

Artificial Intelligence Institute @ekaya.bsky.social · Nov 30

AI expert Marietje Schaake: ‘The way we think about technology is shaped by the tech companies themselves’

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AI expert Marietje Schaake: ‘The way we think about technology is shaped by the tech companies themselves’

The Dutch policy director and former MEP on the unprecedented reach of big tech, the need for confident governments, and why the election of Trump changes everything

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Urbino Economics @urbinoeconomics.bsky.social · Nov 28

Ready to hear more about “Agriculture and Ecosystem Services”?

Speakers: Ginevra Coletti (Univ Ferrara) Youngho (Young) Kim (Univ Oxford)

3 December 2024 h. 1 PM - 2 PM CET
Zoom Link: tinyurl.com/5n8nc5tu

Sponsored by www.sustainability-seeds.org
#agriculture #environment #econsky

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Urbino Economics @urbinoeconomics.bsky.social · Nov 24

Air Pollution and School Performance…. What’s the challenge?
Follow Online Urbino Economics Seminars
Speaker: Elena Meschi

27 November 2024 16-17 CET
Zoom Link: uniurb-it.zoom.us/j/85179018157

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#schooling #education #environment #pollution

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Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom ...

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Francesco Venturini @franceventurini.bsky.social · Nov 23

Talking about Crime and Conflicts @Uniurb.. follow it online

Urbino Economics @urbinoeconomics.bsky.social · Nov 23

Wish to learn more about Crime and Conflicts?
Follow Online SEEDS Lunch Seminars @Uniurb
Speakers Giacomo Lupi and Luca Buzzanca

26 November 2024 h. 13-14 CET
Zoom Link: tinyurl.com/5n8nc5tu

Sponsored by www.sustainability-seeds.org
#crime #conflicts #environment #econsky

Francesco Venturini @franceventurini.bsky.social · Nov 22

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Francesco Venturini @franceventurini.bsky.social · Nov 22

Welcome!

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Maria Savona @mariasavona.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hello dear network, I am now here instead! If we followed each other in X, please switch to this space.

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Francesco Venturini @franceventurini.bsky.social · Nov 15

Does AI boost firm productivity? See our evidence from Europe on the article out on Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization with Larissa Marioni & Ana Rincon
@niesrorg.bsky.social
#uniurbit #JEBO #EconTwitter #AI #Productivity Open acceess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Productivity performance, distance to frontier and AI innovation: Firm-level evidence from Europe

Using firm-level data from 15 European countries between 2011 and 2019, this paper examines the productivity effect associated with the development of…

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Francesco Venturini @franceventurini.bsky.social · Nov 14

How AI affects income distribution and regional disparities? Evidence from Europe.. with Antonio Minniti, Klaus Prettner @ssrn.bsky.social @wuvienna.bsky.social @niesrorg.bsky.social

Unslicing the Pie: AI Innovation and the Labor Share in European Regions

This paper studies how the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) affects the distribution of income between capital and labor, and how these shifts may co

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