Publications

Nicholas Emery-Xu (2026). Firm in the clouds: Supplier market power and technology adoption in the cloud computing industry. Job Market Paper (Draft coming soon!).

Nicholas Emery-Xu, Neil Thompson (2026). The impact of Moore’s law on productivity slowdown and the labor share. Under Census Bureau Project #2590..

Nicholas Emery-Xu, Neil Thompson (2026). Computing power, productivity, and misallocation.

Nicholas Emery-Xu (2026). Artificial intelligence, productivity, and the labor share. Draft coming soon!.

R. Daniel Bressler, Nicholas Emery-Xu, Robert Trager, Allan Dafoe (2026). The offense-defense balance and the costs of anarchy: Welfare is U-shaped under offensive advantage. Under review.

Nicholas Emery-Xu, Richard Jordan, Robert Trager (2024). International governance of advancing artificial intelligence. AI & Society.

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Tamay Besiroglu, Nicholas Emery-Xu, Neil Thompson (2024). Economic impacts of AI-augmented R&D. Research Policy 53(7).

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Nicholas Emery-Xu, Andrew Park, Robert Trager (2023). Uncertainty, information, and risk in international technology races. Journal of Conflict Resolution 68(10).

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Yong-Yeol Ahn, Christophe Combemale, Hassan Khan, M. Granger Morgan, Neil Thompson, Michael Affare, Tamay Besiroglu, Soojung Chun, Nicholas Emery-Xu, Elizaveta Gonchar, Ian Helfrich, Eunji Kim, Harrison Leon, Jayson Lynch, Katy Yu (2023). Integrated summary: Semiconductors. Securing America’s Future.

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