The Financial Foundations of the Productivity Puzzle

Jagjit Chadha, Amit Kara and Paul Labonne

National Institute Economic Review, 2017, vol. 241, issue 1, R48-R57

Abstract: The financial crisis has led to a change in the mix of capital and labour employed in the UK and a sharp decline in total factor productivity. This has meant that labour productivity has not recovered to any great degree since the financial crisis. We explore the role of overall and sectoral productivity in explaining the fall in labour productivity, but also question the extent to which productivity in the service sector may be measured with error. We outline the links between a constrained financial sector and a fall in overall productivity – in which intangible capital seems to play an important role – and illustrate how a financial sector providing intermediate services may act to amplify the business cycle impetus from a total factor productivity shock within the context of a calibrated model.

Keywords: productivity slowdown; labour productivity; financial frictions; productivity measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E01 E32 E44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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