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Apparel Prices 1914-93 and the Hulten/Brueghel Paradox

Gordon, Robert J. - 2005

Backcasting upward bias in price index over long periods of time yields levels of real consumption two or four centuries ago that are implausibly low, raising the possibility that price index bias for important products may have been zero or even negative at some point in the past. This paper...

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Patterns of Skill Premia

Acemoglu, Daron - 1999

In this paper, I develop a model to analyze how skill premia differ over time and across countries, and use this model to study the impact of international trade on wage inequality. Skill premia are determined by technology and the relative supply of skills. An increase in the relative supply of...

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The Aftermath of the 1992 ERM Breakup : Was There a Macroeconomic Free Lunch?

Gordon, Robert J. - 1999

This paper examines the macroeconomic aftermath of the 1992 breakdown of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM). The economic performance of six leaver' nations is compared with five stayer' nations that maintained a roughly fixed parity with the Deutsche Mark. Recent writing about...

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The Industry Anatomy of the Transatlantic Productivity Growth Slowdown

Gordon, Robert J. - 2019

By merging KLEMS data sets and aggregating over the ten largest Western European nations (EU-10), we are able to compare and contrast productivity growth up through 2015 starting from 1950 in the U.S. and from 1972 in the EU-10. Data are provided at the aggregate level, as well as for 16...

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Transatlantic Technologies : The Role of ICT in the Evolution of U.S. and European Productivity Growth

Gordon, Robert J. - 2020

ICT-intensive industries producing market services and computer hardware. In contrast the EU-10 experienced a 1995 …

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The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth

Dew-Becker, Ian - 2008

Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth slowdown was largely offset by faster growth in...

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Two Centuries of Economic Growth : Europe Chasing the American Frontier

Gordon, Robert J. - 2004

Starting from the same level of productivity and per-capita income as the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, Europe fell behind steadily to a level of barely half in 1950, and then began a rapid catch-up. While Europe's level of productivity has almost converged, its income per person...

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Why was Europe Left at the Station When America's Productivity Locomotive Departed?

Gordon, Robert J. - 2004

After fifty years of catching up to the United States level of productivity, since 1995 Europe has been falling behind. The growth rate in output per hour over 1995-2003 in Europe was just half that in the United States, and this annual growth shortfall caused the level of European productivity...

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The Rise of Europe : Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth

Acemoglu, Daron - 2002

This paper documents that the Rise of (Western) Europe between 1500 and 1850 is largely accounted for by the growth of European nations with access to the Atlantic, and especially by those nations that engaged in colonialism and long distance oceanic trade. Moreover, Atlantic ports grew much...

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Credit Market Imperfections and Persistent Unemployment

Acemoglu, Daron - 2000

This paper develops the thesis that credit market frictions may be an important contributor to high unemployment in … market imperfections, so unemployment rises and remains high for an extended period. The data show that there has not been … industries is lower than in the U.S.. This suggests that although credit market imperfections are unlikely to have been the major …

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