Since 1995, growth in productivity in the United States appears to have accelerated dramatically. In this paper, we … cause conventionally measured growth in real output and productivity to be overstated. Building on the GDP function approach … year, or about 20%, of the 1995-2006 apparent increase in productivity growth for the U.S. economy. Bias in the price …

sectoral export variety on country productivity. The effects are estimated in a translog GDP function system based on data for … 34 countries from 1982 to 1997. Country productivity is constructed and export variety is shown to be significant …. Instruments such as tariffs, transport costs, and distance are shown to affect country productivity through export variety, and …

productivity (TFP) estimates of Hsieh (2002) for Singapore. We find that TFP growth is insignificantly different from zero in any …

our benchmark assumption that industry prices are independent of productivity. When we allow for the endogeneity of …

these effects, and the first two effects are ruled out when using a Pareto distribution for productivity with a support that … by using a bounded Pareto distribution for productivity …