developments assesses whether an acceleration of productivity growth, the touchstone of the New Economy, is likely to occur in … concludes that an acceleration in productivity in Europe is likely, as is a continuation of strong productivity gains in the …

Since 1995, productivity growth has accelerated significantly in the United States. Information technology has always … investments in information technology (IT) in the early 1990s show the largest productivity gains in the late 1990s and that IT … capital investment has a large impact of productivity gains. His evidence also supports the view that the U.S. productivity …

This eleventh issue of the International Productivity Monitor, published by the Centre for the Study of Living … Standards, contains seven articles on a range of topics: policies to improve productivity growth in Canada; the causes of lower … employment and productivity; productivity growth in manufacturing in Sweden, and service sector productivity measurement. …

This tenth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international … perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the 1990s; the role of population growth in shaping productivity growth …

The ninth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the magnitude of the Canada-U.S. productivity gap at the industry level …; productivity puzzles facing researchers; the link between technology use, human capital, productivity and wages; the effect of …

This article by Jeffrey I. Bernstein of Carleton University and the NBER discusses the use of total factor productivity … for price setting in regulated industries. He argues that the longterm, industry-wide productivity experience that is not … subject to strategic manipulation by regulated firms should be the productivity growth rate used to develop the appropriate …

1973 and 1995. On the one hand, we had a revival of US labour productivity growth while, on the other hand most, European … countries and Japan have registered a steep decline in their productivity. This paper investigates the source of these diverging … trends. First we use an econometric test developed by Bai and Perron in order to find and measure breaks in productivity …