This paper assesses the ‘one big wave’ in multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth for the United States since 1870. The … mysterious doubling in the ratio of output to capital input when the postwar era is compared with 1870-1929. Measurement … the measurement of capital. A new MFP series taking account of all these adjustments grows more slowly throughout, and the …

In this article, we review the literature on the measurement of trade costs in international trade with a special …

reconcile the conflicting primal and dual estimates of productivity growth over the period. …

multi-country sourcing model in which heterogeneous firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country …

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …

This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America … catching up? Productivity growth certainly made their industries more competitive in home and foreign markets, but other forces …

This paper examines the role of competition in productivity perfromance in Britain over the period from the late … 1930s to the 1970s undermined productivity growth but since the 1970s stronger competition has been a key ingredient in … ending relative economic decline. The productivity implications of the retreat from competition resulted in large part from …