Patents, News, and Business Cycles.

We exploit information in patent applications to construct an instrumental variable for the identification of technology news shocks that relaxes all the identifying assumptions traditionally used in the literature. The instrument recovers news shocks that have no effect on aggregate productivity in...

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Publicado en:Review of Economic Studies Vol. 93; no. 4; pp. 2819 - 2846
Autores principales: Miranda-Agrippino, Silvia, Hacıoğlu-Hoke, Sinem, Bluwstein, Kristina
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jul2026
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