Necessity Is the Mother of Invention: Input Supplies and Directed Technical Change

By R. Chahrour, Dora L. Costa, Jonathan I. Dingel, Ronald Findlay, Lucie Gadenne, Eric Hilt, Douglas A. Irwin, Amit K. Khandelwal, Aprajit Mahajan, M. Morin and 5 more. 2012

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• Demographics and Automation (2021, unknown): “Hanlon (2015) exploits the Civil War-induced decline in U.S. cotton exports to the U.K. and the corresponding increase in Indian cotton exports, which required different types of weaving machines.”
• Temporary Protection and Technology Adoption: Evidence from the Napoleonic Blockade (2014, background): “This may have affected machine choice as in Hanlon (2015). In the following section, I show that the trade cost shock did not lead to a change in the type of machine used.”