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Importing technology
Caselli, Francesco; Wilson, Daniel - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2003
We look at disaggregated imports of various types of equipment to make inferences on cross-country differences in the composition of equipment investment. We make three contributions. First, we document large differences in investment composition. Second, we explain these differences as being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005401584
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Importing technology
Caselli, Francesco; Wilson, Daniel - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2003
We look at disaggregated imports of various types of equipment to make inferences on cross-country differences in the composition of equipment investment. We make three contributions. First, we document large differences in investment composition. Second, we explain these differences as being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702243
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IT and beyond: the contribution of heterogeneous capital to productivity
Wilson, Daniel - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2004
This paper explores the relationship between capital composition and productivity using a unique and remarkably … capital types, including computers, communications equipment, and software, are associated with current and subsequent years …’ productivity. The implied marginal products are derived and compared to official data on rental prices; substantial differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026940
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IT and beyond: the contribution of heterogeneous capital to productivity
Wilson, Daniel - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2004
This paper explores the relationship between capital composition and productivity using a unique and remarkably … capital types, including computers, communications equipment, and software, are associated with current and subsequent years …’ productivity. The implied marginal products are derived and compared to official data on rental prices; substantial differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005401621
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Transition dynamics in vintage capital models : explaining the postwar catch-up of Germany and Japan
Gilchrist, Simon (contributor);  … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003156157
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Embodying embodiment in a structural, macroeconomic input-output model
Wilson, Daniel J. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2001
productivity. Theory dictates that this causation is driven by the effect of traditional capital deepening as well as technological …This paper describes an attempt to build a regression-based system of labor productivity equations that incorporate the … effects of capital-embodied technological change into IDLIFT, a structural, macroeconomic input-output model of the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005401573
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Quantifying embodied technological change
Sakellaris, Plutarchos; Wilson, Daniel J. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2001
not adequately account for quality change. As a result, measured capital stock growth is biased. Third, if accurate, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005514430
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Quantifying embodied technological change
Sakellaris, Plutarchos; Wilson, Daniel J. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2001
not adequately account for quality change. As a result, measured capital stock growth is biased. Third, if accurate, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702136
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Embodying embodiment in a structural, macroeconomic input-output model
Wilson, Daniel J. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2001
productivity. Theory dictates that this causation is driven by the effect of traditional capital deepening as well as technological …This paper describes an attempt to build a regression-based system of labor productivity equations that incorporate the … effects of capital-embodied technological change into IDLIFT, a structural, macroeconomic input-output model of the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702185
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Growth accounting with misallocation: Or, doing less with more in Singapore
Fernald, John; Neiman, Brent - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2010
We derive aggregate growth-accounting implications for a two-sector economy with heterogeneous capital subsidies and … monopoly power. In this economy, measures of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in terms of quantities (the primal) and … real factor prices (the dual) can diverge from each other as well as from true technology growth. These distortions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465682