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 …

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

. An advantage of the manufacturing industry dataset we have assembled for this study is that it combines the annual time …. Examining the within-industry range of variation (max.-min.) of the number of firms over our sample period, the low and high … values across U.S. manufacturing industries are 4 and 3,500 firms respectively, with a mean value of about 324 firms. This …

This paper uses high-frequency data for publicly-listed Japanese manufacturing firms over the period 2000 to 2010 to …

Using annual data on nine manufacturing sectors of eighteen OECD countries, the article studies the implications of …