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| Title: | | Interpreting productivity growth in the new economy: Some agnostic notes  |
| Authors: | | Gundlach, Erich |
| Issue Date: | | 2001 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Kiel Working Papers 1020 |
| Abstract: | | The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However, the size of the estimated growth rate of total factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor-augmenting properties of technological change. Simulations based on alternative properties of technological change produce a wide range of implied stock market valuations. As long as the rate of technological change cannot be observed directly, justifying the emergence of a New Economy with residual measures of total factor productivity growth will prove to be a futile exercise. |
| Subjects: | | total factor productivity growth technological change |
| JEL: | | O47 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des IfW Economists Online Kieler Arbeitspapiere, IfW
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