This paper considers technical progress and the growth of the Japanese economy. Many economists are pessimistic about the economy's future because of the rapid ageing of the population. However, capital and total factor productivity (TFP) are much more important than labour in determining...

Micro price data shows that individual price settings are not time-invariant as presumed in the existing literature. Furthermore, the analysis of auto-correlations shows that interactions of micro prices with leads and lags ignored in the literature play a very important role in explaining the...