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Danial Lashkari
@ldaniall.bsky.social
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economist @NYFed | economic growth & innovation, int'l trade, economic history | PhD @HarvardEcon | PhD @MIT_CSAIL www.daniallashkari.com
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Danial Lashkari @ldaniall.bsky.social · 27d
Our paper provides a method to estimate demand elasticities and infer quality change in settings beyond the CES preferences. Applying method to US imports, we show official measures of inflation in import prices are upward biased bc they don’t account for quality improvements.
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 29d
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Aggregation and the Estimation of Quality Change: Application to U.S. Import Prices,” by Errico and Lashkari (@ldaniall.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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Danial Lashkari @ldaniall.bsky.social · Jan 6
Jeremy Pearce and I identify a puzzling trend in US manufacturing: productivity growth has been slowing down while the sector's R&D intensity has been rising.

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The R&D Puzzle in U.S. Manufacturing Productivity Growth - Liberty Street Economics
A look at whether the observed slowdown in U.S. manufacturing productivity growth since 2010 is due to a decline in research and development.
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Danial Lashkari @ldaniall.bsky.social · Dec 13
RA Hire Alert:
I'm hiring an RA to work with me on the economics of technological growth, innovation, & AI. The position is based at MIT (FutureTech). Please spread the word: futuretech.mit.edu/opportunitie...
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Danial Lashkari @ldaniall.bsky.social · Nov 27
Hello Blue Sky :)
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