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Book Synopsis Interpreting the Procyclical Productivity of Manufacturing Sectors by : Argia M. Sbordone
Download or read book Interpreting the Procyclical Productivity of Manufacturing Sectors written by Argia M. Sbordone and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Interpreting the Procyclical Productivity of Manufacturing Sectors by : Argia M. Sbordone
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.
Book Synopsis Cyclical Productivity in US Manufacturing (RLE: Business Cycles) by : Miguel Jimenez
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.
Book Synopsis Interpreting Procyclical Productivity by : Robert J. Waldmann
Download or read book Interpreting Procyclical Productivity written by Robert J. Waldmann and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Interpreting Procyclical Productivity by : Robert J. Waldmann
Download or read book Interpreting Procyclical Productivity written by Robert J. Waldmann and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Interpreting procyclical productivity by : Robert Waldmann
Download or read book Interpreting procyclical productivity written by Robert Waldmann and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Developments in Productivity Analysis by : Charles R. Hulten
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.
Book Synopsis Labor Hoarding, Inflexible Prices and Procyclical Productivity by : Julio Rotemberg
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.
Book Synopsis Labor Hoarding, Inflexible Prices and Procyclical Productivity (Classic Reprint) by : Julio Rotemberg
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.
Book Synopsis Procyclical Labor Productivity and Competing Theories of the Business Cycle by : Ben Bernanke
Download or read book Procyclical Labor Productivity and Competing Theories of the Business Cycle written by Ben Bernanke and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the main explanations of procyclical labor productivity, or short-run increasing returns to labor (SRIRL), is closely associated with a competing theory of the business cycle: Real business cycle theorists attribute SRIRL to procyclical technological shocks, proponents of recent theories based on non-convexities believe that SRIRL reflects true increasing returns, and Keynesians favor a labor hoarding explanation. Thus evidence on the sources of SRIRL may be important for discriminating among alternative theories of the cycle. This paper studies the sources of SRIRL in a sample of ten interwar U.S. manufacturing industries. Our main findings are that SRIRL was common in the interwar period and that the pattern of SRIRL across industries was similar to that observed in the postwar period. we argue that, under the presumption that the Depression was not caused by large negative technological shocks, these findings are inconsistent with the technological shocks hypothesis and provide evidence against real business cycle theory in general. we propose tests for discriminating between the increasing returns and labor hoarding explanations but find that our conclusions differ by industry.
Book Synopsis Labor Productivity During the Great Depression by : Charles L. Evans
Download or read book Labor Productivity During the Great Depression written by Charles L. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a recent paper, Bemanke and Parkinson (1991) studied interwar U.S. manufacturing data with the objective of assessing competing theories of the business cycle. An important finding was that short-run increasing returns to Labor (SRIRL), or procyclical labor productivity, was at least as strong during the Great Depression as in the postwar period. The authors conclude that this information casts further doubt on the real business cycle explanation of economic fluctuations. The purpose of this note is to point out that, within the data set analyzed by Bemanke and Parkinson (20% of the manufacturing sector), labor productivity during the Great Depression (1928:III to 1933:1) was procyclical in some industries and countercyclical in others. Furthermore, our measure of labor productivity for the entire manufacturing sector during this period was countercyclical. We conclude that the evidence is not favorable toward the hypothesis that large, negative aggregate demand shocks pushed the 1929-33 economy down a static, neoclassical production function. Another possibility is that firms which typically hoarded labor during recessions chose not to do so during the 1929-33 period
Book Synopsis Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth by : Stanley L. Engerman
Download or read book Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth written by Stanley L. Engerman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These classic studies of the history of economic change in 19th- and 20th-century United States, Canada, and British West Indies examine national product; capital stock and wealth; and fertility, health, and mortality. "A 'must have' in the library of the serious economic historian."—Samuel Bostaph, Southern Economic Journal
Book Synopsis Cyclical Productivity in US Manufacturing (RLE: Business Cycles) by : Miguel Jimenez
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 113 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.
Book Synopsis From Firm-Level Imports to Aggregate Productivity by : Mr.JaeBin Ahn
Download or read book From Firm-Level Imports to Aggregate Productivity written by Mr.JaeBin Ahn and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the Korean manufacturing firm-level data, this paper confirms that three stylized facts on importing hold in Korea: the ratio of imported inputs in total inputs tends to be procyclical; the use of imported inputs increases productivity; and larger firms are more likely to use imported inputs. As a result, we find that firm-level import decisions explain a non-trivial fraction of aggregate productivity fluctuations in Korea over the period between 2006 and 2012. Main findings of this paper suggest a possible link between the recent global productivity slowdown and the global trade slowdown.
Book Synopsis Procyclical Productivity by : Lucas Navarro
Download or read book Procyclical Productivity written by Lucas Navarro and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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