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values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …
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summarized to a first order by the current and expected future values of the Solow productivity residual in level and by the …
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productivity growth at the aggregate and firm level during the post-war period. Growth is driven by the development of both (i … variance of aggregate productivity growth is determined mainly by the arrival rate of general innovations. Ceteris paribus, the … increase in firm-level volatility, and a decline in aggregate volatility. The effect on productivity growth is ambiguous. On …
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We introduce a growth model of technology diffusion and endogenous Total Factor Productivity (TFP) levels both at the … disparities in sectoral productivity levels as well as aggregate TFP that can be attributed to the differences in the range of …
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This paper presents a new approach to assess the role of price mismeasurement in the productivity slowdown. I invert … the firm's investment decision to identify the embodied and disembodied components of productivity growth. With a Cobb … that in the Post-War period, disembodied productivity grew faster in the hard-to-measure than in the non-manufacturing easy …
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In this paper I evaluate the contribution of R&D investments to productivity growth. The basis for the analysis are the … externalities. The resulting contribution of R&D to productivity growth in the US is smaller than three to five tenths of one …
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We argue that unmeasured investments in intangible organizational capital associated with the role of information and communications technology (ICT) as a general purpose technology' can explain the divergent U.S. and U.K. TFP performance after 1995. GPT stories suggest that measured TFP should...
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Over the postwar, the U.S., Europe and Japan have experienced what may be thought of as medium frequency oscillations between persistent periods of robust growth and persistent periods of relative stagnation. These medium frequency movements, further, appear to bear some relation to the high...
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Measured productivity growth increased substantially during the second half of the 1990s. This paper examines whether … productivity growth does appear to arise from an increase in technological change. Cyclical utilization raised measured … productivity growth relative to technology growth in the first part of the expansion, but lowered it subsequently. Factor …
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Productivity rises in booms and falls in recessions. There are four main explanations for this procyclical productivity … procyclical productivity as an essential feature of business cycles because each explanation has important implications for … utilization and resource reallocations are particularly important in explaining procyclical productivity. We also argue that the …
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