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is highly disaggregated at the industry level with an input-output network structure. Measured productivity in the model …-specific, uncorrelated across industries. The bulk of the aggregate fluctuations, including those in aggregate measured productivity, are … data. Our second finding is that about half of the decrease in the cyclicality of measured productivity in the U.S. after …
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Do recessions harm investment in technology and thus future aggregate supply? We provide novel evidence on this question using unique, granular data on innovation investment in R&D and diffusion from a representative survey of German firms. Our data allows to identify the crisis-induced...
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Various papers have identified shocks to investment as major drivers of output, investment, hours, and interest rates. These investment shocks have been linked to financial frictions because financial markets are instrumental in transforming consumption goods into installed capital. However, the...
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Big technological improvements in a new, secondary sector lead to a period of excitement about the future prospects of the overall economy, generating boom-bust dynamics propagating through credit markets. Increased future capital prices relax collateral constraints today, leading to a boom...
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Big technological improvements in a new, secondary sector lead to a period of excitement about the future prospects of the overall economy, generating boom-bust dynamics that propagate through credit markets. Increased future capital prices relax collateral constraints today, leading to a boom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350131
This paper examines the effects of expansionary technology shocks (shocks that increase labor productivity and factor … inputs) as opposed to contractionary technology shocks (shocks that increase labor productivity, but decrease factor inputs … productivity and production inputs. In addition, these shocks trigger different reactions of certain variables, which can help …
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productivity of the rest of the economy …
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correlations of hours and productivity in response to technology shocks ('productivity-hours puzzle'). In this paper we show that … by just enhancing the standard frame- work with investment adjustment costs can resolve the 'productivity-hours puzzle'. …
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We develop a stochastic general equilibrium model in which maintenance endogenously affects the capital depreciation rate. The model performs well in generating maintenance series that match closely existing survey-based measures for Canada. Maintenance is procyclical and comoves almost always...
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measurement of labor input as well as determining the effect of productivity shocks on labor, but a number of questions remain. As … for measurement, the issue of schooling needs further work. As for calculating the long-run impact of labor productivity …-term identification delivers more reasonable results. -- technological progress ; business cycles ; hours worked ; labor productivity …
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