Researchers interested in estimating productivity can choose from an array of methodologies, each with its strengths … evaluate three productivity debates using a panel of manufacturing plants in Colombia. The different methods generate … surprisingly similar results. Correlations between alternative productivity estimates are invariably high. All methods confirm that …

We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the productivity distribution and … productivity distribution. With finite support, the aggregate growth rate cannot exceed the maximum growth rate of innovators …

how this leads to an underestimation of productivity growth in the early years of a new GPT, and how later, when the … benefits of intangible investments are harvested, productivity growth will be overestimated. Our model generates a Productivity … J-Curve that can explain the productivity slowdowns often accompanying the advent of GPTs, as well as the increase in …

standard productivity measures. TFPQ performs poorly because of variation in product specifications across firms. Controlling … for specifications aligns TFPQ with lab benchmarks. We also collect quality metrics to construct quality productivity (the …-dimensional productivity, or capability. As quality productivity is negatively correlated with TFPQ, TFPR may perform better at capturing …

productivity. I begin with a discussion of productivity measures, their performance in recent decades, and key measurement puzzles …This paper provides a non-technical review of the literature and issues related to the measurement of aggregate … measurement to keep up with a changing economy? This section frames the issues and points to the most important and promising …

how offshore profit shifting by U.S. multinational enterprises affects GDP and, thus, productivity measurement. Under …Official statistics display a significant slowdown in U.S. aggregate productivity growth that begins in 2004. We show … measures of U.S. aggregate productivity growth. We construct an alternative measure of value added that adjusts for profit …

analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is …: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …

the measurement of earnings dynamics in administrative and survey data alike. Empirically, earnings at the start or end of …