US TFP growth and the contribution of changes in export and import prices to real income growth

Walter Diewert

Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2014, vol. 41, issue 1, 19-39

Abstract: Using recent data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the US Department of Agriculture, the paper calculates the multifactor productivity (MFP) Growth for an Extended Business Sector of the US economy for the years 1987–2011. The Extended Business Sector (EBS) consists of the entire US economy less the inputs used and outputs produced by the Public Administration sector and less the US housing sector. The study found that MFP growth in the EBS averaged 1.157 % per year, somewhat higher than BLS MFP growth in the Private Sector which averaged 0.962 % per year. The study also produced estimates of MFP where a net output concept was used. Finally, the effects of changes in the prices of US exports and imports on real income growth was calculated using a translog model based on the work of Diewert and Morrison and Kohli. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

Keywords: US multifactor productivity growth; Total factor productivity growth; Translog gross and net product model; Real income growth; Terms of trade effects; C43; C67; C82; D24; E22; E43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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