Silicon Continent
Pieter Garicano, Luis Garicano, Simon Grimm, Per Stromberg, Ulrike Malmendier, Olivier Kooi, Antonin BergeaudEssays about Europe, economics, innovation, and growth
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What do consultants get paid for?
A consultant I had lunch with recently is redesigning the loyalty program of a large airline. His team finished the analysis in two weeks. Months later the program still does not exist. This is because the purpose of the assignment is not t...
How to avoid being held up by the labs
Luis Garicano and Jesús Saa-Requejo*
On June 12, the US used export controls to cut foreign access to Anthropic’s newest models, ostensibly in response to reports of jailbreaks and cybersecurity risks. The episode represents the strongest...
Nineteen thoughts on AI and Europe
A rendering of what will soon be Europe’s largest data center, located in Sines, Portugal.
After the events of last weekend, here are some thoughts on where Europe is with AI. This post is coauthored with my colleague Simon Grimm. You can...
The Mismeasurement of European Productivity (Revised)
By Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, and Luis Garicano* (with a postscript responding to Krugman’s answer)
In a recent series of Substack posts, Paul Krugman made a counterintuitive argument to support the view that Europe is not sufferin...
Three theses on AI value capture
Luis Garicano and Jesús Saa-Requejo1
The leading AI labs and their investors are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on one main bet: that whoever holds the most capable model captures the value the technology creates. Almost ever...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Editor at Works in Progress, a magazine of new and underrated ideas to improve the world.
Professor of Public Policy @LSE. Research on tech and labour markets, innovation and growth in Europe. Author with Li and Wu of "Messy Jobs: the Work that AI Cannot Reach" (AMZN:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H42PP3BC).
AI, Europe, and Growth.
Professor of finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. Doing research on private equity, financing innovation, corporate governance, and climate policy. https://www.hhs.se/sv/houseoffinance/about/people/people-container/per-stromberg/
I am a Professor of economics and finance at the University of California, Berkeley, and Founding Director of the O'Donnell Center for Behavioral Economics. From 2021-2025 I served on the German Council of Economic Experts.
Postdoctoral researcher in economics at the London School of Economics
Economist at HEC Paris
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