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Productivity Growth in the Automobile Industry, 1970-1980 : a Comparisonof Canada, Japan and the United States
Fuss, Melvyn - 2012
Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology, we are able to isolate the major source of …
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Unraveling the Productivity Growth Slowdown in the U.S., Canada and Japan : the Effects of Subequilibrium, Scale Economies and Markup
Morrison Paul, Catherine J. - 2021
Measures of productivity growth typically include in the Productivity "residual" the impacts of subequilibrium from fixity of factors, costs of adjustment, returns to scale and markups. This paper proposes a general two part framework for adjusting the residual measure to take these impacts into...
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Productivity, Wages, and Prices Inside and Outside of Manufacturing in the U.S., Japan, and Europe
Gordon, Robert J. - 2021
. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The … uptrend in previously developed wage gap indexes for Japan and Europe between the 1960s and 1980s. If anything real wages in … Europe and Japan were too flexible rather than too rigid, in the sense that much of the increase in wage gap indexes in …
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Specialization : Pro- and Anti-Globalizing, 1990-2002
Anderson, James E. - 2014
Specialization alters the incidence of manufacturing trade costs to buyers and sellers, with pro-and anti-globalizing effects on 76 countries from 1990-2002. The structural gravity model yields measures of Constructed Home Bias (the ratio of predicted local trade to predicted frictionless local...
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Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth
Comin, Diego A. - 2012
transfers from the U.S. to Western European countries and Japan were an important factor in driving growth in these recipient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115686
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Has the U.S. Finance Industry Become Less Efficient? on the Theory and Measurement of Financial Intermediation
Philippon, Thomas - 2014
I provide a quantitative interpretation of financial intermediation in the U.S. over the past 130 years. Measuring separately the cost of intermediation and the production of financial services, I find that: (i) the quantity of intermediation varies a lot over time; (ii) intermediation is...
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Testing Long-Run Productivity Models for the Canadian and U.S. Agricultural Sectors
Capalbo, Susan M.; Denny, Michael - 2021
This paper discusses a portion of our work linking data on the agriculture sector in the United States and Canada. The purpose of this work is to explore the evolution of gains in agricultural productivity in the two countries during the post-WWII period. Comparable data has been developed for...
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The Productivity of U.S. States Since 1880
Mitchener, Kris James; McLean, Ian W. - 2021
This study uses state-level variation in labor productivity levels at twenty-year intervals between 1880 and 1980 to examine the relative importance of institutional and geographical influences in explaining observed and persistent differences in standards of living over time and across regions....
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A New Measure of Utilization-Adjusted TFP Growth for Europe and the United States
Comin, Diego; Quintana, Javier; Schmitz, Tom; Trigari, … - 2022
We compute new estimates for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in the United States and in five European countries. Departing from standard methods, we account for positive profits and use firm surveys to proxy for unobserved changes in factor utilization. These novelties have a major...
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Productivity shocks and real exchange rates
Alexius, Annika - In: Journal of monetary economics 52 (2005) 3, pp. 555-566
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