Oulton, Nicholas 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1595-7732
(2004)
Investment-specific technological change and growth accounting.
Bank of England working papers (213).
Bank of England, London, UK.
Abstract
Greenwood, Hercowitz and Krusell have claimed that the Jorgenson form of growth accounting is conceptually flawed and severely understates the role of technological progress embodied in new capital goods ('embodiment') in explaining US growth. To the contrary, in this paper it is shown that in its technology aspects their model is a special case of the Jorgensonian growth-accounting model. What they call investment-specific technological change is shown to be closely related to the more familiar concept of TFP growth: statements about the one can be translated into statements about the other. Empirically, they claim that the proportion of US growth accounted for by embodiment is about twice as large as estimated by conventional growth accounting. But the difference between these estimates is found to be due more to data than to methodology.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Pages/... |
| Additional Information: | © 2004 Bank of England |
| Divisions: | Centre for Economic Performance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| JEL classification: | O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity > O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity > O47 - Measurement of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output (Income) Convergence O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O5 - Economywide Country Studies > O51 - U.S.; Canada |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Mar 2013 13:39 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 18:39 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/49314 |
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