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suited for measuring the supply of new funds for investment and capital accumulation, it is not clear that they should be the …
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This paper develops a satellite account for the US health sector and measures productivity growth in health care for the elderly population between 1999 and 2012. We measure the change in medical spending and health outcomes for a comprehensive set of 80 conditions. Medical care has positive...
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The U.S. has been experiencing a slowdown in measured labor productivity growth since 2004. A number of commentators and researchers have suggested that this slowdown is at least in part illusory, because real output data have failed to capture the new and better products of the past decade. I...
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This paper combines tax, survey, and national accounts data to estimate the distribution of national income in the United States since 1913. Our distributional national accounts capture 100% of national income, allowing us to compute growth rates for each quantile of the income distribution...
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public revenues, investment funds, and equity it implies. Income from a U.S. trade or business conducted by foreigners … treatment available at home, but raises troublesome issues of equity, the treatment of foreign investment, and transition …
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During the past two decades, there has been a dramatic change in IPO activity around the world. Though vibrant IPO activity, attributed to better institutions and governance, used to be a strength of the U.S., it no longer is. IPO activity in the U.S. has fallen compared to the rest of the world...
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In this paper we derive a model of aggregate investment that builds from the lumpy microeconomic behavior of firms … aggregate investment obtained from adding up the actions of firms subject to aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks, is highly non … postwar sectoral U.S. manufacturing equipment and structures investment. For a given sequence of aggregate shocks, the …
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This paper derives and estimates models of nonresidential investment behavior in which current and future tax … postwar U.S. investment behavior, particularly for investment in machinery and equipment. In addition, the paper develops a … method for assessing the impact of tax policy on the volatility of investment when such policy is endogenous. Illustrative …
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This paper derives analytical measures of the combined effects of tax changes and adjustment costs on investment and …
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we have calculated in real terms across countries and over time indicate that US investment ratios have been rising over …
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