While information technologies (IT) are credited with the recent acceleration in productivity in the United States …, many other industrial countries have not experienced a pickup in productivity growth. To explain this productivity … and slowed productivity growth in a number of industrial countries. We then develop a theoretical model with vintage …

Productivity growth in the U.S. economy jumped during the second half of the 1990s, a resurgence that many analysts …, leading to a lively debate about the connection between IT and productivity and about the sustainability of the faster growth … acceleration in labor productivity after 1995 was driven largely by the greater use of IT capital goods and by the more rapid …

This paper introduces new estimates of recent productivity developments in the United States, using an appropriate … continued strong performance of U.S. productivity since 2000. We find that the major sectoral players in the late 1990s pickup … were not contributors to the more recent surge in productivity. Rather, striking gains in MFP in the finance and business …

productivity growth after nearly a quarter century of sluggish gains. To assess the role of information technology in the recent … that we have used in earlier work. Our results indicate that the contribution to productivity growth from the use of … speed-up in productivity growth. All in all, we estimate that the use of information technology and the production of …

This paper analyzes the sources of U.S. productivity growth in recent years using both aggregate and industry …-level data. We confirm the central role for information technology (IT) in the productivity revival during 1995-2000 and show … that IT played a significant, though smaller, role after 2000. Productivity growth after 2000 appears to have been boosted …