Left Behind: Creative Destruction, Inequality, and the Stock Market

We develop a general equilibrium model of asset prices in which benefits of technological innovation are distributed asymmetrically. Financial market participants do not capture all economic gains from innovation even when they own shares in innovating firms. Such gains accrue partly to the innovato...

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Main Authors: Kogan, Leonid (Author), Papanikolaou, Dimitris (Author), Stoffman, Noah (Author)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press, 2021-04-09T20:01:26Z.
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