our benchmark assumption that industry prices are independent of productivity. When we allow for the endogeneity of …

We examine the role of the ICT revolution in driving productivity growth behavior for the United States and an …. Using industry-level data from EU KLEMS, we find that most of the 1995-2005 U.S. productivity growth revival was driven by … rather than providing a new permanent era of faster productivity growth. This joint transatlantic post-2005 slowdown is …

The paper analyzes the production structure and the demand for inputs in three major industrialized countries, the U ….S., Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand model with two variable inputs (labor and energy)and two quasi-fixed inputs … differences in factor demand schedules; we also find that for all countries the speed of adjustment for capital is higher than …

position variables and the potential spilover pool in explaining R&D intensity, patent productivity and TFP growth is explored … effects are significant in explaining patent productivity. I cannot distinguish between the two effects in explaining TFP … firms do more R&D themselves, they produce more patents per R&D dollar, and their productivity grows faster, even …

of capital, and various factor demand functions for the Bell system during the post-war period. Each vintage of capital … is assumed to differ in productivity according to a parametric function of R&D effort embodied in that vintage of capital …&D expenditures at Bell Laboratories and the improvements in the productivity of specific capital inputs which are due to those R …

In this paper we discuss recent advances in modeling and estimating dynamic factor demand models, and review the use of … such models in analyzing the production structure, the determinants of variable and quasi-fixed factors, and productivity … growth. The paper also discusses the traditional approach to productivity analysis based on the Divisia index number …

, investment, average productivity and output up. This evidence contrasts sharply with the results reported in a large and growing …

We introduce a growth model of technology diffusion and endogenous Total Factor Productivity (TFP) levels both at the … disparities in sectoral productivity levels as well as aggregate TFP that can be attributed to the differences in the range of …

In this paper, we examine the sources of the productivity growth in the U.S. computer industry from 1978 to 1999. We … and product innovations. Based on the estimation results, we decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth rate into …