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Author : Argia M. Sbordone
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Total Pages : 56 pages
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Download or read book Cyclical Productivity in a Model of Labor Hoarding written by Argia M. Sbordone and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miguel Jimenez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317512111
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Cyclical Productivity in US Manufacturing (RLE: Business Cycles) written by Miguel Jimenez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents several pieces of empirical work which disentangle why the standard measure of productivity growth used in macroeconomics turn out to be procyclical for American manufacturing industries. Procyclical productivity is an essential feature of business cycles because of its important implications for macroeconomic modelling. The author explains why traditional Keynesian theories of the business cycle do not explain satisfactorily why productivity is procyclical, and argues that the force of technology for generating economic cycles is much more important than that of the management or mismanagement of monetary or fiscal policies. This book is aimed at those working in empirical macroeconomics but also industrial economics.
Author : Martin Neil Baily
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Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book Labor Productivity written by Martin Neil Baily and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A longstanding puzzle of empirical economics is that average labor productivity declines during recessions and increases during booms. This paper provides a framework to assess the empirical importance of competing hypotheses for explaining the observed procyclicality. For each competing hypothesis we derive the implications for cyclical productivity conditional on expectations of future demand and supply conditions. The novelty of the paper is that we exploit the tremendous heterogeneity in long-run structural changes across individual plants to identify the short-run sources of procyclical productivity. Our findings favor an adjustment cost model which involves a productivity penalty for downsizing as the largest source of procyclical labor productivity.
Author : Julio Rotemberg
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331900910
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Labor Hoarding, Inflexible Prices and Procyclical Productivity (Classic Reprint) written by Julio Rotemberg and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Labor Hoarding, Inflexible Prices and Procyclical Productivity The phenomenon of procyclical physical productivity in the face of wars and other demand shocks has long been recognized. Businessmen have always appreciated the benefits of cyclical expansion: they are able to use their capacity more fully and so their costs per-unit fall. Countless empirical studies have demonstrated that increases in labor input over the business cycle are associated with more than proportional increases in output.1 The appropriate interpretation of the procyclicality of various productivity measures has long been a matter of debate among economists and has attracted renewed interest since the work of Hall (1987, This paper seeks to rehabilitate both theoretically and empirically an idea that has gone somewhat out of fashion-the notion that procyclical productivity regardless of how measured arises because it is costly for firms to adjust their capacity and so capacity utilization (both in terms of labor and capital) fluctuates over the business cycle. We believe that variations in the extent to which productivity is procyclical have more to do with differences in the extent of labor hoarding than with market power. Developing this line of argument also leads us to a perspective on the reasons why price often seems to exceed marginal cost in US industry which is somewhat different from Hall's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Julio Rotemberg
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Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Labor Hoarding, Inflexible Prices and Procyclical Productivity written by Julio Rotemberg and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hall has pointed out that, when there is perfect competition and price flexibility, labor hoarding alone will not induce the Solow residual measured using labor's share in revenues to be procyclical. We show that, even with perfect competition, a small amount of price rigidity - we assume firms must set price slightly before the level of demand becomes known - makes the extent of procyclical productivity depend mainly on the extent of labor hoarding. We show that indeed, whether productivity is measured via the Solow method using labor's share in revenues or using other methods, it tends to be more procyclical in industries and in nations where labor hoarding is more important.
Author : Argia M. Sbordone
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Interpreting the Procyclical Productivity of Manufacturing Sectors written by Argia M. Sbordone and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates whether procyclical productivity is due to cyclical variations in the rate of utilization of labor or to technological externalities. By looking at the relation between sectoral productivity and the level of aggregate activity, empirical evidence is presented to distinguish the two hypotheses. Analysis of two-digit U.S. manufacturing industries shows that sectoral productivity is more closely related to the rate of change of aggregate activity than to its level. This result is consistent with the interpretation that cyclical productivity is due to cyclical variations in the rate of utilization of labor, which responds to expected future industry conditions. Aggregate variables in production-function regressions have therefore the role of forecasting variables for future industry conditions.
Author : Domenico Marchetti
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Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book Procyclical Productivity, Externalities and Labor Hoarding written by Domenico Marchetti and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig Burnside
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Total Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book Labor Hoarding and the Business Cycle written by Craig Burnside and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existing Real Business Cycle (RBC) models assume that the key impulses to business cycles are stochastic technology shocks. RBC analysts typically measure these technology shocks by the Solow residual. This paper assesses the sensitivity of inference based on Solow residual accounting to labor hoarding behavior. Our main results can be summarized as follows. First, the quantitative implications of RBC models are very sensitive to the possibility of labor hoarding. Allowing for such behavior reduces our estimate of the variance of technology shocks by 50%. Depending on the sample period investigated, this reduces the ability of technology shocks to account for aggregate output fluctuations by 30% to 60%. Second, our labor hoarding model is capable of quantitatively accounting for the observed correlation between government consumption and the Solow residual. Third, unlike standard RBC models, our labor hoarding model is consistent with three important qualitative features of the joint behavior of average productivity and hours worked: (i) average productivity and hours worked do not display any marked contemporaneous correlation, (ii) average productivity is positively correlated with future hours worked, and (iii) average productivity is negatively correlated with lagged hours worked.
Author : Susanto Basu
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Total Pages : 56 pages
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Download or read book Intermediate Goods and Business Cycles written by Susanto Basu and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents an aggregate demand-driven model of business cycles that provides a new explanation for the procyclicality of productivity, and simultaneously predicts large welfare losses from monetary non-neutrality. The key features of the model are an input- output production structure, imperfect competition, countercyclical markups, and, for some results, state- dependent price rigidity. True technical efficiency is procyclical even though production takes place with constant returns, without technology shocks or technological externalities. The paper has observable implications that distinguish it empirically from related work. These implications are generally supported by data from U.S. manufacturing industries.
Author : Susanto Basu
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Total Pages : 39 pages
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Download or read book Procyclical Productivity written by Susanto Basu and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles R. Hulten
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226360644
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book New Developments in Productivity Analysis written by Charles R. Hulten and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The productivity slowdown of the 1970s and 1980s and the resumption of productivity growth in the 1990s have provoked controversy among policymakers and researchers. Economists have been forced to reexamine fundamental questions of measurement technique. Some researchers argue that econometric approaches to productivity measurement usefully address shortcomings of the dominant index number techniques while others maintain that current productivity statistics underreport damage to the environment. In this book, the contributors propose innovative approaches to these issues. The result is a state-of-the-art exposition of contemporary productivity analysis. Charles R. Hulten is professor of economics at the University of Maryland. He has been a senior research associate at the Urban Institute and is chair of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Michael Harper is chief of the Division of Productivity Research at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Edwin R. Dean, formerly associate commissioner for Productivity and Technology at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is adjunct professor of economics at The George Washington University.
Author : Charles Steven Morris
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Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book Cyclical Productivity in the United States written by Charles Steven Morris and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mr.Pau Rabanal
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1451875657
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Technology Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations written by Mr.Pau Rabanal and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our answer: Not so well. We reached that conclusion after reviewing recent research on the role of technology as a source of economic fluctuations. The bulk of the evidence suggests a limited role for aggregate technology shocks, pointing instead to demand factors as the main force behind the strong positive comovement between output and labor input measures.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264044612
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Productivity Measurement and Analysis written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the proceedings of two workshops on productivity measurement and analysis, which brought together representatives of statistical offices, central banks and other officials involved with the analysis and measurement of productivity at aggregate and industry levels.
Author : John Maynard Keynes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319703447
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money written by John Maynard Keynes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was originally published by Macmillan in 1936. It was voted the top Academic Book that Shaped Modern Britain by Academic Book Week (UK) in 2017, and in 2011 was placed on Time Magazine's top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. Reissued with a fresh Introduction by the Nobel-prize winner Paul Krugman and a new Afterword by Keynes’ biographer Robert Skidelsky, this important work is made available to a new generation. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money transformed economics and changed the face of modern macroeconomics. Keynes’ argument is based on the idea that the level of employment is not determined by the price of labour, but by the spending of money. It gave way to an entirely new approach where employment, inflation and the market economy are concerned. Highly provocative at its time of publication, this book and Keynes’ theories continue to remain the subject of much support and praise, criticism and debate. Economists at any stage in their career will enjoy revisiting this treatise and observing the relevance of Keynes’ work in today’s contemporary climate.
Author : Victor Zarnowitz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226978923
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Business Cycles written by Victor Zarnowitz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the most complete collection available of the work of Victor Zarnowitz, a leader in the study of business cycles, growth, inflation, and forecasting.. With characteristic insight, Zarnowitz examines theories of the business cycle, including Keynesian and monetary theories and more recent rational expectation and real business cycle theories. He also measures trends and cycles in economic activity; evaluates the performance of leading indicators and their composite measures; surveys forecasting tools and performance of business and academic economists; discusses historical changes in the nature and sources of business cycles; and analyzes how successfully forecasting firms and economists predict such key economic variables as interest rates and inflation.
Author : Roger E. A. Farmer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262062039
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Macroeconomics of Self-fulfilling Prophecies written by Roger E. A. Farmer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmer argues for the future of macroeconomics as a branch ofapplied general equilibrium theory. His main theme is thatmacroeconomics is best viewed as the study of equilibrium environmentsin which the welfare theorems break down.
