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This paper presents evidence on the geographical dimension of the IT revolution in the U.S. economy. BEA and Census data show that, although neither IT diffusion nor the productivity revival was geographically narrow, the matching of the two across the U.S. states has been far from perfect. The...
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This paper examines Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and knowledge flows, using international patent data. The result is a measure of technology that isolates sources of innovation and their contributions to domestic TFP. Within-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic...
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This paper examines Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and knowledge flows, using international patent data. The result is a measure of technology that isolates sources of innovation and their contributions to domestic TFP. Within-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic...
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that until 2050 the resulting growth rates of nuclear electricity generation capacity become comparable to historical rates …
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. The Internet and wireless communication are treated as the central mechanisms of ICT-driven productivity growth. The … computational capacity at center stage (e.g., Jorgenson 2001). The usual sources-of-growth model is adapted for network effects and … contributed nearly 0.5 percentage points to productivity growth annually from 2000 to 2007, or 32 percent of the overall change in …
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productivity growth in the mid-1990s. This paper traces the evolution of productivity estimates to document how and when this … as important sources of growth. Although IT has diminished in significance since the dot-com crash of 2000, we project … that private sector productivity growth will average around 2.5 percent per year for the next decade, a pace that is only …
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The theoretical richness and variety of the new growth literature can make it difficult to capture the essence of … growth models. With this paper, we wish to provide one possible integrating view of the nature of the growth generating … processes. Revisiting the models that constitute the core of growth theory, we expose analytically the main mechanisms through …
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