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Productivity dynamics: U.S. manufacturing plants, 1972-1986

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Dhrymes, Phoebus J. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1994

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Engines of growth: domestic and foreign sources of innovation

Kortum, Samuel S.; Eaton, Jonathan - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1995

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Too much of a good thing? The economics of investment in R&D

Williams, John C.; Jones, Charles I. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1995

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Computers, obsolescence, and productivity

Whelan, Karl - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2000

focuses on two effects--the effect of increased productivity in the computer-producing sector and the effect of investments in … computing equipment on the productivity of those who use them--and concludes that together they account for almost all of the … recent acceleration in U.S. labor productivity. In calculating the computer-usage effect, standard NIPA measures of the …

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The lead of output over inflation in sticky price models

Kiley, Michael T. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1996

Output growth is negatively correlated with inflation, and detrended output is positively correlated with inflation, in the major North American and European economies. In addition, output growth and detrended output lead inflation. I explore the consistency of these correlations with three...

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Accounting for the secular “decline” of U.S. manufacturing

Marquis, Milton; Trehan, Bharat - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2005

productivity growth. We show that the data imply that households are not willing to substitute between the two goods at all and …

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Quantifying embodied technological change

Sakellaris, Plutarchos; Wilson, Daniel J. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2001

We estimate the rate of embodied technological change directly from plant-level manufacturing data on current output and input choices along with histories on their vintages of equipment investment. Our estimates range between 8 and 17 percent for the typical U.S. manufacturing plant during the...

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How workers fare when employers innovate

Black, Sandra E.; Lynch, Lisa M.; Krivelyova, Anya - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2003

Complementing existing work on firm organizational structure and productivity, this paper examines the impact of …

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Fed governor says productivity fosters growth

In: Financial Update (2005) Q 1

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On government credit programs

Espinosa-Vega, Marco; Smith, Bruce D.; Yip, Chong K. - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 1998

Credit rationing is a common feature of most developing economies. In response to it, the governments of these countries often operate extensive credit programs and lend, either directly or indirectly, to the private sector. We analyze the macroeconomic consequences of a typical government...

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