Gittleman, Maury; ten Raa, Thijs; Wolff, Edward N. - 2004
The age structure of capital plays an important role in the measurement of productivity. It has been argued that the … productivity measurement. One proposition proves that Nelson's (1964) formula is only an approximation. Our final proposition shows … that inclusion of the vintage effect prompts an upward correction of measured productivity growth in times of an aging …