U.S. beef cattle stocks are among the most periodic time-series in economics. A theory of cattle cycles is constructed … the demographic structure of the herd to respond cyclically to exogenous shocks in demand for beef and in production costs … evolution of cattle stock and beef consumption. These compare very closely to structural econometric time-series estimates over …

This paper provides three perspectives on long-run growth rates of labor productivity (LP) and of multi …-factor productivity (MFP) for the U. S. economy. It extracts statistical growth trends for labor productivity from quarterly data for the … in early 1962 down to 1.25 percent in late 1979 and recovered to 2.45 percent in 2002. Our results on productivity trends …

This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United … experienced contrasting advances in productivity, in particular as a result of unequal investment in information and communication … technology (ICT).The past 120 years have been characterized by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in all …

which the US overtakes Britain in productivity leadership, the US does not have the overwhelming lead in market potential …

endogenous relation between productivity growth and the state of the economy. A large contractionary shock to equity financing in …

productivity, occasioned by the disappearance of the whales (because of over-hunting) and the deterioration of the quality of labor … problems. In this paper, productivity data (superlative indexes), by voyage, are employed in multiple regression analysis to … trace the relationships between the changes in the composition of the fleet and productivity. The propositions that …