detrended data for personal consumption expenditures and manufacturing output suggest that the U.S. economy has recovered to … near 90% of pre-pandemic levels as of March 2021, our structural VAR model shows that the component of manufacturing output …

information on aggregate productivity growth. Yet, a large body of research shows that within-industry variation in productivity … across businesses, even within narrowly defined industries. These differences vary by industry and time and are related to … statistics providing this level of detail, BLS and the Census Bureau partnered to create measures of within-industry productivity …

unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of …, including the innovative part of manufacturing, are only influenced by changes in the cyclical component of unemployment, while …

Using firm-level survey data for the West German manufacturing sector, this paper revisits the technology …-driven business cycle hypothesis for the case of aggregate investment. We construct a survey-based measure of technology shocks to … gauge their contribution to short-run investment fluctuations. We estimate an upper bound for the contribution of technology …

We study differences in the adjustment of aggregate real wages in the manufacturing sector over the business cycle …

We examine the comovements between the output indexes of three German sectors (manufacturing, mining, and agriculture …

largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications …