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labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …
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support productivity-improving investment in R&D and technology adoption and hence the long-run trend path, provided that the … with productivity dynamics. As a result, additional stimulus is required at the ELB and the degree of subsequent …
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for monetary policy, such as output, productivity, investment, employment and prices. This paper takes stock of … through a number of channels, including productivity, employment, competition and prices; (iii) digitalisation raises … productivity and lowers prices, similarly to other supply/technology shocks; (iv) this has implications for monetary policy and its …
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We identify an inflationary technology news shock as the leading source of business cycle variations for the postwar U.S. economy. This shock acts like a demand shock: it induces strong positive comovement in real quantities - GDP, consumption, investment - and weak positive comovement between...
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The Producer Price Index (PPI) for the United States suggests that semiconductor prices have barely been falling in recent years, a dramatic contrast to the rapid declines reported from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s. This slowdown in the rate of decline is puzzling in light of evidence that...
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support productivity-improving investment in R&D and technology adoption and hence the long-run trend path, provided that the … with productivity dynamics. As a result, additional stimulus is required at the ELB and the degree of subsequent …
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Traditional sources of growth studies generally assume that the nature of technological progress is Hicks-neutral. However, the nature of technological progress compatible with steady state conditions is Harrod-neutral rather than Hicks-neutral. This study thus investigates sources of growth for...
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We develop a framework for analyzing "medium-runʺ departures from balanced growth, and apply it to the economies of continental Europe. A time-varying factor-augmenting production function (mimicking "directedʺ technical change) with a below-unitary substitution elasticity coupled with...
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