Ajay K. Agrawal

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• University of Toronto / Rotman School of Management
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• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Research profile

author of:

• Restructuring Research: Communication Costs and the Democratization of University Innovation
  American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2008)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-article, aea:aecrev:v:98:y:2008:i:4:p:1578-90)
• Understanding the Changing Structure of Scientific Inquiry
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association (2016)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Avi Goldfarb & Florenta Teodoridis
  (ReDIF-article, aea:aejapp:v:8:y:2016:i:1:p:100-128)
• Human Judgment and AI Pricing
  AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association (2018)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-article, aea:apandp:v:108:y:2018:p:58-63)
• Artificial Intelligence: The Ambiguous Labor Market Impact of Automating Prediction
  Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association (2019)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-article, aea:jecper:v:33:y:2019:i:2:p:31-50)
• Crowdfunding: Geography, Social Networks, and the Timing of Investment Decisions
  Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell (2015)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Christian Catalini & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-article, bla:jemstr:v:24:y:2015:i:2:p:253-274)
• Deals not done: Sources of failure in the market for ideas
  Strategic Management Journal, Wiley Blackwell (2015)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Iain Cockburn & Laurina Zhang
  (ReDIF-article, bla:stratm:v:36:y:2015:i:7:p:976-986)
• Roads and Innovation
  CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2014)
  by Agrawal, Ajay & Galasso, Alberto & Oettl, Alexander
  (ReDIF-paper, cpr:ceprdp:10113)
• Why are some regions more innovative than others? The role of firm size diversity
  CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2013)
  by Cockburn, Iain M & Agrawal, Ajay & Galasso, Alberto & Oettl, Alexander
  (ReDIF-paper, cpr:ceprdp:9766)
• The anchor tenant hypothesis: exploring the role of large, local, R&D-intensive firms in regional innovation systems
  International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier (2003)
  by Agrawal, Ajay & Cockburn, Iain
  (ReDIF-article, eee:indorg:v:21:y:2003:i:9:p:1227-1253)
• Does standardized information in online markets disproportionately benefit job applicants from less developed countries?
  Journal of International Economics, Elsevier (2016)
  by Agrawal, Ajay & Lacetera, Nicola & Lyons, Elizabeth
  (ReDIF-article, eee:inecon:v:103:y:2016:i:c:p:1-12)
• How do spatial and social proximity influence knowledge flows? Evidence from patent data
  Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier (2008)
  by Agrawal, Ajay & Kapur, Devesh & McHale, John
  (ReDIF-article, eee:juecon:v:64:y:2008:i:2:p:258-269)
• Not Invented Here? Innovation in company towns
  Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier (2010)
  by Agrawal, Ajay & Cockburn, Iain & Rosell, Carlos
  (ReDIF-article, eee:juecon:v:67:y:2010:i:1:p:78-89)
• Brain drain or brain bank? The impact of skilled emigration on poor-country innovation
  Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier (2011)
  by Agrawal, Ajay & Kapur, Devesh & McHale, John & Oettl, Alexander
  (ReDIF-article, eee:juecon:v:69:y:2011:i:1:p:43-55)
• Why are some regions more innovative than others? The role of small firms in the presence of large labs
  Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier (2014)
  by Agrawal, Ajay & Cockburn, Iain & Galasso, Alberto & Oettl, Alexander
  (ReDIF-article, eee:juecon:v:81:y:2014:i:c:p:149-165)
• Have university knowledge flows narrowed?: Evidence from patent data
  Research Policy, Elsevier (2009)
  by Rosell, Carlos & Agrawal, Ajay
  (ReDIF-article, eee:respol:v:38:y:2009:i:1:p:1-13)
• How stars matter: Recruiting and peer effects in evolutionary biology
  Research Policy, Elsevier (2017)
  by Agrawal, Ajay & McHale, John & Oettl, Alexander
  (ReDIF-article, eee:respol:v:46:y:2017:i:4:p:853-867)
• Does scientist immigration harm US science? An examination of the knowledge spillover channel
  Research Policy, Elsevier (2019)
  by Agrawal, Ajay & McHale, John & Oettl, Alexander
  (ReDIF-article, eee:respol:v:48:y:2019:i:5:p:1248-1259)
• Economic Policy for Artificial Intelligence
  Working Papers, eSocialSciences (2018)
  by Avi Goldfarb & Joshua Gans & Ajay Agrawal
  (ReDIF-paper, ess:wpaper:id:12798)
• Economic Policy for Artificial Intelligence
  Working Papers, eSocialSciences (2018)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-paper, ess:wpaper:id:12823)
• Putting Patents in Context: Exploring Knowledge Transfer from MIT
  Management Science, INFORMS (2002)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Rebecca Henderson
  (ReDIF-article, inm:ormnsc:v:48:y:2002:i:1:p:44-60)
• Recruiting for Ideas: How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires
  Management Science, INFORMS (2011)
  by Jasjit Singh & Ajay Agrawal
  (ReDIF-article, inm:ormnsc:v:57:y:2011:i:1:p:129-150)
• The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda
  NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-book, nbr:nberbk:agra-1)
• The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Health Care Challenges
  NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2024)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb & Catherine Tucker
  (ReDIF-book, nbr:nberbk:agra-2)
• Standards, Patents and Innovations
  NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014)
  by Timothy Simcoe & Ajay K. Agrawal & Stuart Graham
  (ReDIF-book, nbr:nberbk:simc12-1)
• Not Invented Here? Innovation in Company Towns
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2010)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Iain Cockburn & Carlos Rosell
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:11890)
• Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Christian Catalini & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:12946)
• Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2015)
  by Ajay Agrawal & John Horton & Nicola Lacetera & Elizabeth Lyons
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:12988)
• Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science: Evidence from Evolutionary Biology
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014)
  by Ajay Agrawal & John McHale & Alexander Oettl
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:13038)
• Introduction to "The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda"
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:14005)
• Prediction, Judgment, and Complexity: A Theory of Decision-Making and Artificial Intelligence
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:14010)
• Finding Needles in Haystacks: Artificial Intelligence and Recombinant Growth
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018)
  by Ajay Agrawal & John McHale & Alexander Oettl
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:14024)
• Economic Policy for Artificial Intelligence
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:14098)
• Similarities and Differences in the Adoption of General Purpose Technologies
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2023)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:14751)
• Introduction to "The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Health Care Challenges"
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2023)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb & Catherine Tucker
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:14758)
• University Patenting: Estimating the Diminishing Breadth of Knowledge Diffusion and Consumption
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006)
  by Carlos Rosell & Ajay Agrawal
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:12640)
• Restructuring Research: Communication Costs and the Democratization of University Innovation
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:12812)
• Birds of a Feather - Better Together? Exploring the Optimal Spatial Distribution of Ethnic Inventors
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Devesh Kapur & John McHale
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:12823)
• Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2008)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Devesh Kapur & John McHale
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:14592)
• Not Invented Here? Innovation in Company Towns
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2009)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & Iain M. Cockburn & Carlos Rosell
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:15437)
• Recruiting for Ideas: How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2010)
  by Jasjit Singh & Ajay K. Agrawal
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:15869)
• The Geography of Crowdfunding
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2011)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & Christian Catalini & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:16820)
• Why are Some Regions More Innovative than Others? The Role of Firm Size Diversity
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2012)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & Iain M. Cockburn & Alberto Galasso & Alexander Oettl
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:17793)
• Does Information Help or Hinder Job Applicants from Less Developed Countries in Online Markets?
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & Nicola Lacetera & Elizabeth Lyons
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:18720)
• Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & Christian Catalini & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:19133)
• Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013)
  by Ajay Agrawal & John Horton & Nicola Lacetera & Elizabeth Lyons
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:19525)
• Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science: Evidence from Evolutionary Biology
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013)
  by Ajay Agrawal & John McHale & Alexander Oettl
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:19653)
• Deals Not Done: Sources of Failure in the Market for Ideas
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Iain Cockburn & Laurina Zhang
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:19679)
• Does Knowledge Accumulation Increase the Returns to Collaboration?
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Avi Goldfarb & Florenta Teodoridis
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:19694)
• Why Stars Matter
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & John McHale & Alex Oettl
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:20012)
• Tax Credits and Small Firm R&D Spending
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Carlos Rosell & Timothy S. Simcoe
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:20615)
• Slack Time and Innovation
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2015)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Christian Catalini & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:21134)
• Prediction, Judgment and Complexity: A Theory of Decision Making and Artificial Intelligence
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:24243)
• Human Judgment and AI Pricing
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:24284)
• Does Scientist Immigration Harm US Science? An Examination of Spillovers
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018)
  by Ajay Agrawal & John McHale & Alex Oettl
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:24519)
• Finding Needles in Haystacks: Artificial Intelligence and Recombinant Growth
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018)
  by Ajay Agrawal & John McHale & Alex Oettl
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:24541)
• Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence: Prediction versus Judgment
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:24626)
• Economic Policy for Artificial Intelligence
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:24690)
• Artificial Intelligence: The Ambiguous Labor Market Impact of Automating Prediction
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:25619)
• Enabling Entrepreneurial Choice
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Scott Stern
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:27379)
• AI Adoption and System-Wide Change
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2021)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:28811)
• Prediction Machines, Insurance, and Protection: An Alternative Perspective on AI's Role in Production
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2022)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:30177)
• Similarities and Differences in the Adoption of General Purpose Technologies
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2023)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:30976)
• Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Discovery: A Model of Prioritized Search
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2023)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & John McHale & Alexander Oettl
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:31558)
• The Turing Transformation: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence Augmentation, and Skill Premiums
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2023)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:31767)
• University Research, Industrial R&D, and the Anchor Tenant Hypothesis
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2002)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Iain M. Cockburn
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:9212)
• Gone But Not Forgotten: Labor Flows, Knowledge Spillovers, and Enduring Social Capital
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Iain Cockburn & John McHale
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:9950)
• Entrepreneurial Finance and the Flat-World Hypothesis: Evidence from Crowd-Funding Entrepreneurs in the Arts
  Working Papers, NET Institute (2010)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Christian Catalini & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-paper, net:wpaper:1008)
• Innovation and the Growth of Cities
  Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press (2003)
  by Ajay K. Agrawal
  (ReDIF-article, oup:jecgeo:v:3:y:2003:i:4:p:458-461)
• International labor mobility and knowledge flow externalities
  Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business (2008)
  by Alexander Oettl & Ajay Agrawal
  (ReDIF-article, pal:jintbs:v:39:y:2008:i:8:p:1242-1260)
• Public Sector Science And The Strategy Of The Commons
  Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals (2007)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Lorenzo Garlappi
  (ReDIF-article, taf:ecinnt:v:16:y:2007:i:7:p:517-539)
• Roads and Innovation
  The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2017)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Alberto Galasso & Alexander Oettl
  (ReDIF-article, tpr:restat:v:99:y:2017:i:3:p:417-434)
• The Economics of Artificial Intelligence
  National Bureau of Economic Research Books, University of Chicago Press (2019)
  by
  (ReDIF-book, ucp:bknber:9780226613338)
• Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding
  Innovation Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press (2014)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Christian Catalini & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-article, ucp:ipolec:doi:10.1086/674021)
• Economic Policy for Artificial Intelligence
  Innovation Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press (2019)
  by Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb
  (ReDIF-article, ucp:ipolec:doi:10.1086/699935)
• Diaspora Networks, Knowledge Flows and Brain Drain
  WIPO Economic Research Working Papers, World Intellectual Property Organization - Economics and Statistics Division (2014)
  by Ajay Agrawal
  (ReDIF-paper, wip:wpaper:15)