NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

New Developments in Productivity Analysis

Charles R. Hulten, Edwin R. Dean and Michael J. Harper, editors

Published in January 2001 by University of Chicago Press
© 2001 by the National Bureau of Economic Research
in NBER Book Series Studies in Income and Wealth

NBER Program(s):   PR

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632 pages
ISBN: 0-226-36062-8

Table of Contents

1. Front matter, New Developments in Productivity Analysis: Charles R. Hulten, Edwin Dean, Michael Harper (p. -17 - 0) (bibliographic info) (download)

2. Total Factor Productivity. A Short Biography: Charles R. Hulten (p. 1 - 54) (bibliographic info) (download)

3. The BLS Productivity Measurement Program: Edwin Dean, Michael Harper (p. 55 - 84) (bibliographic info) (download)

4. Which (Old) Ideas on Productivity Measurement Are Ready to Use?: W. Erwin Diewert (p. 85 - 102) (bibliographic info) (download)

5. Dynamic Factor Demand Models and Productivity Analysis: M. Ishaq Nadiri, Ingmar Prucha (p. 103 - 172) (bibliographic info) (download)

6. After “Technical Progress and the Aggregate Production Function”: Robert Solow (p. 173 - 178) (bibliographic info) (download)

7. Accounting for Growth: Jeremy Greenwood, Boyan Jovanovic (p. 179 - 224) (bibliographic info) (download)

8. Why Is Productivity Procyclical? Why Do We Care?: Susanto Basu, John Fernald (p. 225 - 302) (bibliographic info) (download)

9. Aggregate Productivity Growth. Lessons from Microeconomic Evidence: Lucia Foster, John C. Haltiwanger, C. J. Krizan (p. 303 - 372) (bibliographic info) (download)

10. Sources of Productivity Growth in the American Coal Industry 1972–95 : Denny Ellerman, Thomas Stoker, Ernst R. Berndt (p. 373 - 418) (bibliographic info) (download)

11. Service Sector Productivity Comparisons: Lessons for Measurement: Martin Neil Baily, Eric Zitzewitz (p. 419 - 464) (bibliographic info) (download)

12. Different Approaches to International Comparison of Total Factor Productivity: Nazrul Islam (p. 465 - 508) (bibliographic info) (download)

13. Whatever Happened to Productivity Growth?: Dale Jorgenson, Eric Yip (p. 509 - 540) (bibliographic info) (download)

14. Productivity of the U.S. Agricultural Sector: The Case of Undesirable Outputs: V. Eldon Ball, Rolf Fare, Shawna Grosskopf, Richard Nehring (p. 541 - 586) (bibliographic info) (download)

15. Total Resource Productivity. Accounting for Changing Environmental Quality: Frank Gollop, Gregory P. Swinand (p. 587 - 608) (bibliographic info) (download)

16. A Perspective on What We Know About the Sources of Productivity Growth: Zvi Griliches (p. 609 - 612) (bibliographic info) (download)

17. Contributors: (p. 613 - 616) (bibliographic info) (download)

18. Author Index: (p. 617 - 624) (bibliographic info) (download)

19. Subject Index: (p. 625 - 631) (bibliographic info) (download)

 
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