@techreport{NBERw9819, title = "What Happens After a Technology Shock?", author = "Lawrence J. Christiano and Martin Eichenbaum and Robert Vigfusson", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "9819", year = "2003", month = "July", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w9819", abstract = {We provide empirical evidence that a positive shock to technology drives per capita hours worked, consumption, investment, average productivity and output up. This evidence contrasts sharply with the results reported in a large and growing literature that argues, on the basis of aggregate data, that per capita hours worked fall after a positive technology shock. We argue that the difference in results primarily reflects specification error in the way that the literature models the low-frequency component of hours worked.}, }