Why Is Productivity Procyclical? Why Do We Care?

Susanto Basu & John Fernald
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Copyright 2001
ISBN 9780226360621
New Developments in Productivity Analysis
Book: New Developments in Productivity Analysis
Book editors: Charles R. Hulten, Edwin R. Dean & Michael J. Harper
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
Series: Studies in Income and Wealth
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  • Susanto Basu and John Fernald, New Developments in Productivity Analysis (University of Chicago Press, 2001), chap. 7, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/new-developments-productivity-analysis/why-productivity-procyclical-why-do-we-care.

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Why Is Productivity Procyclical? Why Do We Care?
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Productivity rises in booms and falls in recessions. There are four main explanations for this procyclical...

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