This paper presents estimates of total factor productivity growth for 55 manufacturing industries over the period 1927 …

This paper evaluates the link between the diffusion of electricity and the increase in labour productivity growth in … that the trend acceleration in labour productivity is common to all these countries except Germany and is correlated with … electricity diffusion. Germany’s labour productivity growth was nevertheless sustained in 1925 - 1938. The USA saw an earlier …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

By quantifying the unmeasured, Fed economists shed light on the stock market, productivity and the development of …

This study investigates the productivity differences and its sources across a set of banks during the last years of the … regional distribution. Employing DEA productivity analysis and the Malmquist index, we discover that these changes were … regional banking groups, like the Catalan, can be linked with its low productivity levels. In consequence, in the light of our …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

times and places. Productivity in cotton textiles, for example, grew at computer-industry rates, and continued to into the …