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Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 1-2
This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa-based Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS). The objective of the Monitor is to focus atttention on the importance of productivity for improving living standards and quality of...
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What's New About the New Economy? IT, Economic Growth and Productivity
Bosworth, Barry P.; Triplett, Jack E. - In: International Productivity Monitor 2 (2001) Spring, pp. 19-30
Has the economy fundamentally changed in the 1990s because of the introduction of information technology or is the impact of IT not so much "new" as larger than before? In this article, Barry Bosworth and Jack Triplett of the Brooking Institution examine this issue with a detailed analysis of...
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Assessing Output and Productivity Growth in the Banking Industry
Athanasoglou, Panayiotis P.; Georgiou, Evangelia A.; … - Bank of Greece - 2008
This paper assesses the evolution of output and productivity in the Greek banking industry for the period 1990-2006. Three main categories of bank output were estimated based on modern theoretical approaches, while for the aggregation and estimation of output and inputs and the estimation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162303
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Assessing output and productivity growth in the banking industry
Athanasoglou, Panayiotis; Georgiou, Evangelia; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper assesses the evolution of output and productivity in the Greek banking industry for the period 1990-2006. Three main categories of bank output were estimated based on modern theoretical approaches, while for the aggregation and estimation of output and inputs and the estimation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151580
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Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 1-2
The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650247
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A Synthesis of the CSLS Provincial Productivity Reports, 1997-2007
Avillez, Ricardo de; Ross, Chris - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2011
This report, based on the CSLS Provincial Productivity Database, provides a portrait of the productivity performance of the ten Canadian provinces over the 1997-2007 period. Level and growth rate estimates of labour and multifactor productivity are presented and discussed, with an emphasis on...
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Is IT Driving the U.S. Productivity Revival?
Stiroh, Kevin J. - In: International Productivity Monitor 2 (2001) Spring, pp. 31-36
Since 1995, productivity growth has accelerated significantly in the United States. Information technology has always been thought to be the driving force behind this development. In this article by Kevin Stiroh of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York provides strong empirical support for this...
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Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 1-2
The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of the information and communications technology sector to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650233
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An Analysis of the Canada-U.S. ICT Investment Gap: An Update to 2013
Thomas, Jasmin - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2015
&D and information and communications technology (ICT) investment. The objective of this report is to examine the country …’s ICT investment performance since 2000. The key finding is that, since the 2008 peak, business sector ICT investment in … States. By 2013, four years after the 2009 recession, nominal ICT investment in the business sector in Canada had failed to …
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The Contribution of ICTs to Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s
Rao, Someshwar; Tang, Jianmin - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 3-18
Jianmin Tang of Industry Canada examine the contribution of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector to … the total economy and manufacturing level can be entirely accounted for by the greater size and faster growth of the ICT … medium term given the continued U.S. predominance in the crucial ICT sector. …
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