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# Daniel Rock

University of Pennsylvania
Author of 2 papers in this guide

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## Their papers in this guide

- [The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-1257-mac-20180386/) [American Economic Journal Macroeconomics](https://aifaultline.com/sources/american-economic-journal-macroeconomics/) · 2020

- [Extending “GPTs Are GPTs” to Firms](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-1257-pandp-20251045/) [AEA Papers and Proceedings](https://aifaultline.com/sources/aea-papers-and-proceedings/) · 2025

## Questions their papers address

- [Will AI actually boost productivity and growth?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/productivity/) (1 of 2 papers)

- [Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/jobs/) (1 of 2 papers)

- [How fast will the impact arrive?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/pace/) (1 of 2 papers)

## Writes with, in this guide

[Benjamin Labaschin](https://aifaultline.com/authors/benjamin-labaschin/) (1), [Chad Syverson](https://aifaultline.com/authors/chad-syverson/) (1), [Erik Brynjolfsson](https://aifaultline.com/authors/erik-brynjolfsson/) (1), [Pamela Mishkin](https://aifaultline.com/authors/pamela-mishkin/) (1), [Sam Manning](https://aifaultline.com/authors/sam-manning/) (1), [Tyna Eloundou](https://aifaultline.com/authors/tyna-eloundou/) (1)

Co-authors on their papers here (6 of 6 shown).

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