The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro …, especially the United States, where such work sheds important light on particular aspects of productivity growth. The authors …

The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro …, especially the United States, where such work sheds important light on particular aspects of productivity growth. The authors … identify areas for further research. -- Productivity …

We study the impact of regional and sectoral productivity changes on the U.S. economy. To that end, we consider an … environment that captures the effects of interregional and intersectoral trade in propagating disaggregated productivity changes … sectoral productivity changes. We find that such elasticities can vary significantly depending on the sectors and regions …

rates of total factor productivity in distinct consumption- and investmentgoods- producing technologies. This model … attributes most of the productivity slowdown of the 1970s to the consumption-goods sector; it suggests that a slowdown in the …

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US … productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However …, the size of the estimated growth rate of total factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor …

for each 4-digit SIC code. Our framework uses the Petrin and Levinsohn (2008) definition of aggregate productivity growth …

1990s, provided that variations in population growth, depreciation rates, total factor productivity, and taxes are …. We use the theory to compare current accounting measures for labor productivity and investment with the corresponding … understate the boom in productivity and investment …