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Vintage Organization Capital
Jovanovic, Boyan - 2001
We study 114 years of U.S. stock market data and find That there are large cohort effects in stock prices, effects that we label 'organization capital,' That cohort effects grew at a rate of 1.75% per year, That the debt-equity ratio of all vintages declined, That three big technological waves...
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Creative Destruction in Industries
Jovanovic, Boyan - 2010
Most industries go through a quot;shakeoutquot; phase during which the number of producers in the industry declines. Industry output generally continues to rise, however, which implies a reallocation of capacity from exiting firms to incumbents and new entrants. Thus shakeouts seem to be classic...
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Accounting for Growth
Greenwood, Jeremy; Jovanovic, Boyan - 2021
following three facts: 1. Since the early 1970's there has been a slump in the advance of productivity. 2. The price of new … explanations are: 1. Productivity slowed down because the implementation of information technologies was both costly and slow. 2 …
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Experience, Vintage and Time Effects in the Growth of Earnings : Americanscientists, 1960-1970
Weiss, Yoram; Lillard, Lee A. - 2021
This paper is concerned with the growth of individual earnings over time. Four aspects of time are distinguished: experience, age, vintage and calendar year. The first section of the paper provides a brief outline of a theory of planned growth in earnings. The second and main section of the...
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The Vintage Effect in TFP Growth : An Analysis of the Age Structure of Capital
Gittleman, Maury; ten Raa, Thijs; Wolff, Edward N. - 2021
The age structure of capital plays an important role in the measurement of productivity. It has been argued that the … productivity measurement. A proposition proves that Nelson's (1964) formula is wrong. Our final proposition shows that inclusion of … the vintage effect prompts an upward correction of measured productivity growth in times of an aging stock of capital …
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Measuring Moore's Law : Evidence from Price, Cost, and Quality Indexes
Flamm, Kenneth - 2018
“Moore's Law” in the semiconductor manufacturing industry is used to describe the predictable historical evolution of a single manufacturing technology platform that has been continuously reducing the costs of fabricating electronic circuits since the mid-1960s. Some features of its future...
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The Impact of Plant-Level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth
Petrin, Amil - 2011
) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …
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Productivity Growth and the Regional Dynamics of Antebellum Southern Development
Olmstead, Alan L. - 2010
Between 1800 and 1860, the United States became the preeminent world supplier of cotton as output increased sixty-fold. Technological changes, including the introduction of improved cotton varieties, contributed significantly to this growth. Measured output per worker in the cotton sector rose...
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Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium : A Quantitative Analysis
Burstein, Ariel T. - 2010
We construct a model of international trade and multinational production (MP) to examine the impact of globalization on the skill premium in skill-abundant and skill-scarce countries. The key mechanisms in our framework arise from the interaction between three elements: cross-country differences...
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Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth
Comin, Diego A. - 2012
In the aftermath of World War II, the world's economies exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that also saw an acceleration in the speed of adoption of new technologies....
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