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University of British Columbia → Sauder School of Business → Strategy and Business Economics Division

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Working papers

2026

  1. Ajay K. Agrawal & John McHale & Alexander Oettl, 2026, "Enhancing Worker Productivity Without Automating Tasks: A Different Approach to AI and the Task-Based Model," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 34781, Jan.
  2. Ajay K. Agrawal & John McHale & Alexander Oettl, 2026, "AI in Science," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 34953, Mar.
    • Ajay K. Agrawal & John McHale & Alexander Oettl, 2026, "AI in Science," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "The Economics of Science: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead".

2025

  1. Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2025, "The Economics of Bicycles for the Mind," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 34034, Jul.
  2. Erik Brynjolfsson & Anton Korinek & Ajay K. Agrawal, 2025, "A Research Agenda for the Economics of Transformative AI," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 34256, Sep.
  3. Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2025, "Genius on Demand: The Value of Transformative Artificial Intelligence," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 34316, Oct.

2023

  1. Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2023, "Similarities and Differences in the Adoption of General Purpose Technologies," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 30976, Feb.
  2. Ajay K. Agrawal & John McHale & Alexander Oettl, 2023, "Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Discovery: A Model of Prioritized Search," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 31558, Aug.
  3. Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2023, "The Turing Transformation: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence Augmentation, and Skill Premiums," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 31767, Oct.

2022

  1. Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2022, "Prediction Machines, Insurance, and Protection: An Alternative Perspective on AI's Role in Production," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 30177, Jun.

2021

  1. Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2021, "AI Adoption and System-Wide Change," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 28811, May.

2020

  1. Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Scott Stern, 2020, "Enabling Entrepreneurial Choice," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 27379, Jun.

2019

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2019, "Artificial Intelligence: The Ambiguous Labor Market Impact of Automating Prediction," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 25619, Feb.

2018

  1. Avi Goldfarb & Joshua Gans & Ajay Agrawal, 2018, "Economic Policy for Artificial Intelligence," Working Papers, eSocialSciences, number id:12798, May.
  2. Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2018, "Prediction, Judgment and Complexity: A Theory of Decision Making and Artificial Intelligence," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 24243, Jan.
  3. Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2018, "Human Judgment and AI Pricing," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 24284, Feb.
  4. Ajay Agrawal & John McHale & Alex Oettl, 2018, "Does Scientist Immigration Harm US Science? An Examination of Spillovers," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 24519, Apr.
  5. Ajay Agrawal & John McHale & Alex Oettl, 2018, "Finding Needles in Haystacks: Artificial Intelligence and Recombinant Growth," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 24541, Apr.
  6. Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2018, "Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence: Prediction versus Judgment," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 24626, May.

2015

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Christian Catalini & Avi Goldfarb, 2015, "Slack Time and Innovation," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 21134, Apr.

2014

  1. Agrawal, Ajay & Galasso, Alberto & Oettl, Alexander, 2014, "Roads and Innovation," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 10113, Aug.
  2. Ajay K. Agrawal & John McHale & Alex Oettl, 2014, "Why Stars Matter," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 20012, Mar.
  3. Ajay Agrawal & Carlos Rosell & Timothy S. Simcoe, 2014, "Tax Credits and Small Firm R&D Spending," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 20615, Oct.
  4. Ajay Agrawal, 2014, "Diaspora Networks, Knowledge Flows and Brain Drain," WIPO Economic Research Working Papers, World Intellectual Property Organization - Economics and Statistics Division, number 15, Jan.

2013

  1. Cockburn, Iain M & Agrawal, Ajay & Galasso, Alberto & Oettl, Alexander, 2013, "Why are some regions more innovative than others? The role of firm size diversity," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 9766, Dec.
  2. Ajay K. Agrawal & Nicola Lacetera & Elizabeth Lyons, 2013, "Does Information Help or Hinder Job Applicants from Less Developed Countries in Online Markets?," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 18720, Jan.
  3. Ajay K. Agrawal & Christian Catalini & Avi Goldfarb, 2013, "Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 19133, Jun.
  4. Ajay Agrawal & John Horton & Nicola Lacetera & Elizabeth Lyons, 2013, "Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 19525, Oct.
  5. Ajay Agrawal & John McHale & Alexander Oettl, 2013, "Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science: Evidence from Evolutionary Biology," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 19653, Nov.
  6. Ajay Agrawal & Iain Cockburn & Laurina Zhang, 2013, "Deals Not Done: Sources of Failure in the Market for Ideas," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 19679, Nov.
  7. Ajay Agrawal & Avi Goldfarb & Florenta Teodoridis, 2013, "Does Knowledge Accumulation Increase the Returns to Collaboration?," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 19694, Dec.

2011

  1. Ajay K. Agrawal & Christian Catalini & Avi Goldfarb, 2011, "The Geography of Crowdfunding," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 16820, Feb.

2010

  1. Jasjit Singh & Ajay K. Agrawal, 2010, "Recruiting for Ideas: How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 15869, Apr.
  2. Ajay Agrawal & Christian Catalini & Avi Goldfarb, 2010, "Entrepreneurial Finance and the Flat-World Hypothesis: Evidence from Crowd-Funding Entrepreneurs in the Arts," Working Papers, NET Institute, number 10-08, Sep, revised Sep 2010.

2009

  1. Ajay K. Agrawal & Iain M. Cockburn & Carlos Rosell, 2009, "Not Invented Here? Innovation in Company Towns," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 15437, Oct.

2008

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Devesh Kapur & John McHale, 2008, "Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 14592, Dec.

2007

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Devesh Kapur & John McHale, 2007, "Birds of a Feather - Better Together? Exploring the Optimal Spatial Distribution of Ethnic Inventors," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 12823, Jan.

2006

  1. Carlos Rosell & Ajay Agrawal, 2006, "University Patenting: Estimating the Diminishing Breadth of Knowledge Diffusion and Consumption," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 12640, Oct.
  2. Ajay K. Agrawal & Avi Goldfarb, 2006, "Restructuring Research: Communication Costs and the Democratization of University Innovation," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 12812, Dec.

2003

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Iain Cockburn & John McHale, 2003, "Gone But Not Forgotten: Labor Flows, Knowledge Spillovers, and Enduring Social Capital," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 9950, Sep.

2002

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Iain M. Cockburn, 2002, "University Research, Industrial R&D, and the Anchor Tenant Hypothesis," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 9212, Sep.

Journal articles

2019

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2019, "Artificial Intelligence: The Ambiguous Labor Market Impact of Automating Prediction," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, volume 33, issue 2, pages 31-50, Spring.
  2. Agrawal, Ajay & McHale, John & Oettl, Alexander, 2019, "Does scientist immigration harm US science? An examination of the knowledge spillover channel," Research Policy, Elsevier, volume 48, issue 5, pages 1248-1259, DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2019.01.005.
  3. Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2019, "Economic Policy for Artificial Intelligence," Innovation Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press, volume 19, issue 1, pages 139-159, DOI: 10.1086/699935.

2018

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2018, "Human Judgment and AI Pricing," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, volume 108, pages 58-63, May.

2017

  1. Agrawal, Ajay & McHale, John & Oettl, Alexander, 2017, "How stars matter: Recruiting and peer effects in evolutionary biology," Research Policy, Elsevier, volume 46, issue 4, pages 853-867, DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2017.02.007.
  2. Ajay Agrawal & Alberto Galasso & Alexander Oettl, 2017, "Roads and Innovation," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, volume 99, issue 3, pages 417-434, July.

2016

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Avi Goldfarb & Florenta Teodoridis, 2016, "Understanding the Changing Structure of Scientific Inquiry," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, volume 8, issue 1, pages 100-128, January.
  2. Agrawal, Ajay & Lacetera, Nicola & Lyons, Elizabeth, 2016, "Does standardized information in online markets disproportionately benefit job applicants from less developed countries?," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, volume 103, issue C, pages 1-12, DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2016.08.003.

2015

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Christian Catalini & Avi Goldfarb, 2015, "Crowdfunding: Geography, Social Networks, and the Timing of Investment Decisions," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, volume 24, issue 2, pages 253-274, June, DOI: 10.1111/jems.12093.
  2. Ajay Agrawal & Iain Cockburn & Laurina Zhang, 2015, "Deals not done: Sources of failure in the market for ideas," Strategic Management Journal, Wiley Blackwell, volume 36, issue 7, pages 976-986, July.

2014

  1. Agrawal, Ajay & Cockburn, Iain & Galasso, Alberto & Oettl, Alexander, 2014, "Why are some regions more innovative than others? The role of small firms in the presence of large labs," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, volume 81, issue C, pages 149-165, DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2014.03.003.
  2. Ajay Agrawal & Christian Catalini & Avi Goldfarb, 2014, "Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding," Innovation Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press, volume 14, issue 1, pages 63-97, DOI: 10.1086/674021.

2011

  1. Agrawal, Ajay & Kapur, Devesh & McHale, John & Oettl, Alexander, 2011, "Brain drain or brain bank? The impact of skilled emigration on poor-country innovation," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, volume 69, issue 1, pages 43-55, January.
  2. Jasjit Singh & Ajay Agrawal, 2011, "Recruiting for Ideas: How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires," Management Science, INFORMS, volume 57, issue 1, pages 129-150, January, DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1100.1253.

2010

  1. Agrawal, Ajay & Cockburn, Iain & Rosell, Carlos, 2010, "Not Invented Here? Innovation in company towns," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, volume 67, issue 1, pages 78-89, January.

2009

  1. Rosell, Carlos & Agrawal, Ajay, 2009, "Have university knowledge flows narrowed?: Evidence from patent data," Research Policy, Elsevier, volume 38, issue 1, pages 1-13, February.

2008

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Avi Goldfarb, 2008, "Restructuring Research: Communication Costs and the Democratization of University Innovation," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, volume 98, issue 4, pages 1578-1590, September, DOI: 10.1257/aer.98.4.1578.
  2. Agrawal, Ajay & Kapur, Devesh & McHale, John, 2008, "How do spatial and social proximity influence knowledge flows? Evidence from patent data," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, volume 64, issue 2, pages 258-269, September.
  3. Alexander Oettl & Ajay Agrawal, 2008, "International labor mobility and knowledge flow externalities," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, volume 39, issue 8, pages 1242-1260, December.

2007

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Lorenzo Garlappi, 2007, "Public Sector Science And The Strategy Of The Commons," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 16, issue 7, pages 517-539, DOI: 10.1080/10438590600914627.

2003

  1. Agrawal, Ajay & Cockburn, Iain, 2003, "The anchor tenant hypothesis: exploring the role of large, local, R&D-intensive firms in regional innovation systems," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, volume 21, issue 9, pages 1227-1253, November.
  2. Ajay K. Agrawal, 2003, "Innovation and the Growth of Cities," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, volume 3, issue 4, pages 458-461, October.

2002

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Rebecca Henderson, 2002, "Putting Patents in Context: Exploring Knowledge Transfer from MIT," Management Science, INFORMS, volume 48, issue 1, pages 44-60, January, DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.48.1.44.14279.

Books

2026

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb & Catherine E. Tucker, 2026, "The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number agra-4, May.
  2. Ajay K. Agrawal & Erik Brynjolfsson & Anton Korinek, 2026, "The Economics of Transformative AI," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number agra-5, May.

2024

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb & Catherine Tucker, 2024, "The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Health Care Challenges," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number agra-2, May.

2019

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2019, "The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number agra-1, May.
  2. Agrawal, Ajay & Gans, Joshua & Goldfarb, Avi (ed.), 2019, "The Economics of Artificial Intelligence," National Bureau of Economic Research Books, University of Chicago Press, number 9780226613338, ISBN: ARRAY(0x6651f108), December.

2014

  1. Timothy Simcoe & Ajay K. Agrawal & Stuart Graham, 2014, "Standards, Patents and Innovations," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number simc12-1, May.

Chapters

2026

  1. Ajay K. Agrawal & John McHale & Alexander Oettl, 2026, "AI in Science," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "The Economics of Science: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead".

2025

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb & Catherine Tucker, 2025, "Introduction to "The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence"," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence".
  2. Ajay K. Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2025, "Genius on Demand: The Value of Transformative Artificial Intelligence," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "The Economics of Transformative AI".
  3. Ajay Agrawal & John McHale & Alexander Oettl, 2025, "Comment on "Science in the Age of Algorithms"," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "The Economics of Transformative AI".
  4. Ajay K. Agrawal & Erik Brynjolfsson & Anton Korinek, 2025, "Introduction to "The Economics of Transformative AI"," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "The Economics of Transformative AI".

2023

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2023, "Similarities and Differences in the Adoption of General Purpose Technologies," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth".
  2. Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb & Catherine Tucker, 2023, "Introduction to "The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Health Care Challenges"," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Health Care Challenges".

2018

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2018, "Introduction to "The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda"," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda".
  2. Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2018, "Prediction, Judgment, and Complexity: A Theory of Decision-Making and Artificial Intelligence," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda".
  3. Ajay Agrawal & John McHale & Alexander Oettl, 2018, "Finding Needles in Haystacks: Artificial Intelligence and Recombinant Growth," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda".
  4. Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2018, "Economic Policy for Artificial Intelligence," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 19".

2015

  1. Ajay Agrawal & John Horton & Nicola Lacetera & Elizabeth Lyons, 2015, "Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy".

2014

  1. Ajay Agrawal & John McHale & Alexander Oettl, 2014, "Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science: Evidence from Evolutionary Biology," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy".

2013

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Christian Catalini & Avi Goldfarb, 2013, "Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 14".

2010

  1. Ajay Agrawal & Iain Cockburn & Carlos Rosell, 2010, "Not Invented Here? Innovation in Company Towns," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "Cities and Entrepreneurship".

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