This paper analyzes the role productivity growth had on disinflation in Chile during the 1990s. It argues that … productivity growth was key in avoiding the output costs of stabilization in a highly indexed economy. Disinflation from the early … performance, which combined simultaneously very high rates of growth and declining inflation, productivity stands high. The …

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 …

Beginning in 2004, official statistics display a slowdown in U.S. productivity growth. We show how offshore profit … shifting by U.S. multinational enterprises affects GDP and, thus, productivity measurement. Profit shifting increased in the … mid- 1990s, resulting in lower measured productivity growth. We construct value added adjusted for profit shifting. The …

productivity growth has declined by half over the past decade, and real income has stagnated since the late 1990s for a majority of …

factor productivity growth is more important than the effect on capital growth. This explains why the growth effects of … that are more financially developed or have higher quality of institutions experience larger productivity growth responses …

In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four … things: (1) that incomes per capita diverged more around the world after 1800 than before; (2) that the source of this …

has led many economists to believe that productivity growth in these economies, particularly in their manufacturing … productivity) gains from an outward orientation. This view fails to take into account the equally unusual rapid growth of both … envelope calculations to show that, as regards productivity growth in the aggregate economy and in manufacturing in particular …