investigate different identification schemes for bi-variate systems comprising U.S. stock prices and total factor productivity …. The former variable is viewed as reflecting expectations of economic agents about future productivity. It is found that … used for total factor productivity. -- Cointegration ; Markov regime switching model ; vector error correction model …

news shock through their identification. However, the news shock leads to a stock market boom with a negligible impact on …

the variation in the GDP in Canada. My findings suggest that TFP news shock is the key driver of GDP in the medium run and … it creates significant positive co-movements among the aggregate variables at business cycle frequencies. Demand shock … dominates in the short run, however, its hard to pin down the exact source of the shock. The findings are robust to alternative …

We investigate the controversial issue whether unemployment is related to productivity growth in the long run, using U …. Therefore the secular decline of unemployment since the mid 1990s indeed stemmed from higher average productivity growth. The … initial and final regimes are essentially equal, thus supporting theories that explain the productivity slowdown by a slow …

measurement of labor input as well as determining the effect of productivity shocks on labor, but a number of questions remain. As … for measurement, the issue of schooling needs further work. As for calculating the long-run impact of labor productivity …-term identification delivers more reasonable results. -- technological progress ; business cycles ; hours worked ; labor productivity …

measurement of labor input as well as determining the effect of productivity shocks on labor, but a number of questions remain. As … for measurement, the issue of schooling needs further work. As for calculating the long-run impact of labor productivity …

-neutral technology on hours worked, productivity and wages in a novel structural vector error correction framework identified by non …, productivity and wages. Structural inequality shocks also have a negative impact on hours worked, but additionally reduce … productivity. We find relevant effects of inequality both above and below the median wage. …