In this column, guest authors share their views on economic and financial issues.
A new economic paradigm is beginning to emerge—marked by uneven adoption and significant challenges for Europe.
Artificial intelligence inspires as much excitement as it does uncertainty, particularly regarding its potential impact on productivity and employment. Yet AI’s influence on macroeconomic performance ultimately depends on whether companies adopt these technologies on a broad scale. But can we already assess the pace of AI adoption when both the technology and, above all, its practical applications are still in their early stages?
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Yotzov et al., 2026) offers one approach by combining several business surveys conducted across four major OECD economies—the United States, Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The objective is to create an internationally comparable, homogeneous, and macroeconomically representative sample. The study is based on a panel of 6,000 companies.
What distinguishes more productive, larger, and higher-paying companies
