This paper provides a disaggregated productivity comparison between Japan and the United States for the period 1885-1990. It combines two detailed productivity comparisons for 1939 and 1975 with time series to provide a long-term sectoral perspective. There is much diversity in the Japanese...

This paper presents multilateral comparisons of output, productivity, and purchasing power parities in manufacturing for 1975 and 1987. Two multilateral approaches are considered, namely the Geary-Khamis method and the generalized Theil-Tornqvist method based on the EKS procedure. The paper...

Methodologies to derive price indices for information and communication technology (ICT) products vary between national statistical offices. This may lead to significant differences in measured price changes for these products and there has been concern about the international comparability of...