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Aakash Kalyani

  • Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Aakash Kalyani is an economist at Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. His research interests are in economic growth, innovation and technological change. He also works on the use Natural Language Processing methods in Economics . He has a PhD in Economics from Boston University.

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How Do Tech Innovations Really Spread? New Evidence

Article By Aakash Kalyani, Nicholas Bloom, Marcela Carvalho, Tarek Alexander Hassan, Josh Lerner, and Ahmed Tahoun | Jul 11, 2024

New technologies appear to yield long-lasting benefits for the pioneer locations where they were originally developed.

The Diffusion of New Technologies

Paper Working Paper | By Aakash Kalyani, Nicholas Bloom, Marcela Carvalho, Tarek Alexander Hassan, Josh Lerner, and Ahmed Tahoun | Jul 2024

The concentration of innovation in a handful of urban centers engenders large and persistent regional disparities in economic opportunity.

Who Benefits From New Technologies?

Article By Nicholas Bloom, Tarek Alexander Hassan, Aakash Kalyani, Josh Lerner, and Ahmed Tahoun | Jun 22, 2020

Do the benefits of new technologies accrue primarily to inventors, early investors, and highly skilled users, or to society more widely as their adoption generates employment growth?

The Geography of New Technologies

Paper Working Paper | By Nicholas Bloom, Tarek Alexander Hassan, Aakash Kalyani, Josh Lerner, and Ahmed Tahoun | Jun 2020

Rising inequality has focused attention on the benefits of new technologies. Do these accrue primarily to inventors, early investors, and highly skilled users, or to society more widely as their adoption generates employment growth?