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The production index is an important indicator for assessing the cyclical state of the economy. Unfortunately, the monthly time series is contaminated by many noisy components like seasonal variations, calendar and vacation effects. Only part of those nuisance components are explicitly...
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We describe new experimental productivity statistics, Dispersion Statistics on Productivity (DiSP), jointly developed … and published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Census Bureau. Official BLS productivity statistics provide … information on aggregate productivity growth. Yet, a large body of research shows that within-industry variation in productivity …
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We study business cycles with cyclical returns to scale. Contrary to tightly parameterized production functions (Cobb-Douglas and Constant Elasticity of Substitution), we empirically identify strong input complementarity that leads to procyclical returns to scale. We therefore propose a flexible...
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