Research Interests
economic growth, innovation, labor economics, text-as-data, natural language processing“AI Hype or Reality? Shifts in Corporate Investment after ChatGPT”
with Serdar Ozkan, Mickenzie Bass and Mick Dueholm
On the Economy, October 3, 2024
“AI Optimism and Uncertainty: What Can Earnings Calls Tell Us Post-ChatGPT?”
with Serdar Ozkan, Mickenzie Bass and Mick Dueholm
On the Economy, September 30, 2024
“Uneven Innovation in the U.S.”
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2024, No. 11
“The Innovation Puzzle: Patents and Productivity Growth”
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2024, No. 7
“Economic Surveillance using Corporate Text” (PDF)
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2024-022A, August 2024
“The Creativity Decline: Evidence from US Patents” (PDF)
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2024-008A, April 2024
“Diffusion of Disruptive Technologies”
with Nicholas Bloom, Tarek Hassan, Josh Lerner, and Ahmed Tahoun
Working paper, June 2023
“The Geography of New Technologies”
with Nicholas Bloom, Tarek Hassan, Josh Lerner, and Ahmed Tahoun
Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Papers, June 2020
Aakash Kalyani is an economist in the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which he joined in August 2023. His research focuses on economic growth, innovation, and labor economics. He also extensively uses text-as-data and natural language processing in his research. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Boston University in 2023 and a master's degree in economics (2015) from the University of Delhi.