Essays in Macroeconomics

This thesis consists of three essays in the field of macroeconomics. In the first chapter, Andrea Manera and I study the economic incentives for automation when labor and machines are perfect substitutes. We find that labor may still be employed in production, even when it is a costlier input than r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fornino, Michele
Other Authors: Acemoglu, Daron
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139003
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9256-7252