Eicher, Theo S.; Strobel, Thomas - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2008
US productivity growth surged twice post 1995 and post 2000. In contrast Germany registered two successive productivity reductions during that same period of time. Previous analysis of the post-2000 decline has been limited, however, by the short time series of the available data. In this paper...