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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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With fixed costs of price and quantity adjustment, output effects of inflation depend on the elasticity of the firm's marginal real revenue. If the elasticity always exceeds minus unity, then output decreases with inflation, while if the elasticity is always less than minus unity, then output...
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When similar patterns of expansion and contraction are observed across sectors, we call this a business cycle. Yet explaining the similarity and synchronization of these cycles across industries remains a puzzle. Whereas output growth across industries is highly correlated, identifiable shocks,...
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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 …
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This paper shows the importance of technological synergies among heterogeneous firms for aggregate fluctuations. First, we document six novel empirical facts using microdata that suggest the existence of important technological synergies between trading firms, the presence of positive...
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This paper provides estimates of labor productivity for one-third of UK manufacturing during the Great Depression. It … the 1929-1932 peak-to-trough years of the Depression. This result has also been found for US manufacturing over the same …
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We examine the comovements between the output indexes of three German sectors (manufacturing, mining, and agriculture …
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This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany. As detrending methods we apply the deterministic trend model, the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition, the Hodrick-Prescott filter, the Baxter-King filter and the structural time...
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