This article describes and illustrates a generalized least squares (GLS) method that systematically incorporates all available information on the reliability of initial data in the reconciliation of a large disaggregated system of national accounts. The GLS method is applied to reconciling the...

Production capital and technology (i.e., total factor productivity) in US manufacturing are fundamental for understanding output and productivity growth of the US economy but are unobserved at this level of aggregation and must be estimated before being used in empirical analysis. Previously, we...

Production capital and total factor productivity or technology are fundamental to understanding output and productivity growth, but are unobserved except at disaggregated levels and must be estimated before being used in empirical analysis. In this paper, we develop estimates of production...