Fernald, John; Thipphavong, David; Trehan, Bharat - In: FRBSF Economic Letter (2007)
Strong productivity growth is essential for improving living standards and can have an important impact on economic … policy, yet economists are far from being experts at predicting when the trend of productivity growth might shift. In the … 1960s, productivity growth boomed, growing at an average annual rate of 2-1/2%. It weakened in the early 1970s, and for the …