International Productivity Monitor

2000 - 2024

Current editor(s): Andrew Sharpe, Executive Director

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Volume 40, month Spring, 2021

Editors’ Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe and Bart van Ark

Pay and Productivity in Canada: Growing Together, Only Slower than Ever pp. 3-26

David Williams

Benchmarking the Productivity Performance of New Zealand’s Frontier Firms pp. 27-55

Guanyu Zheng, Hoang Minh Duy and Gail Pacheco

The Causes of Japan’s Economic Slowdown: An Analysis Based on the Japan Industrial Productivity Database pp. 56-88

Kyoji Fukao, YoungGak Kim and HyeogUg Kwon

Measuring the Volume of Services Industries Output and Productivity: An Audit of Services Producer Price Indices in OECD Countries pp. 89-104

Mary O’Mahony and Lea Samek

ViewPoint: Canada Should Establish an Equitable Growth Institute pp. 105-117

Don Drummond

Putting Together the Pieces of the Productivity Puzzle: Review Article of Productivity Perspectives and Productivity and the Pandemic pp. 118-133

Bart van Ark

Productivity Measurement with Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis: A Review Article on Measurement of Productivity and Efficiency: Theory and Practice pp. 134-139

Bert Balk

Volume 39, month Fall, 2020

Editor’s Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe

A Concerted Effort to Tackle the UK Productivity Puzzle pp. 3-15

Bart van Ark and Anthony Venables

The Pandemic and Short-Run Changes in Output, Hours Worked and Labour Productivity: Canadian Evidence by Industry pp. 16-32

Joel Blit, Mikal Skuterud and Michael Veall

Industry Productivity Performance in G7 Countries after the Global Financial Crisis: A Canadian Perspective pp. 33-52

Jianmin Tang and Weimin Wang

A Vertically Integrated Perspective on Nordic Manufacturing Productivity pp. 53-73

Daniel Lind

What Do We Know About Economic and Productivity Growth? A Review Article on "Measuring Economic Growth and Productivity: Foundations, KLEMS Production Models, and Extensions" pp. 74-80

Gilbert Cette

The Impact of Digitalization on the Economy: A Review Article on the NBER Volume "Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda" pp. 81-90

Eric Santor

Volume 38, month Spring, 2020

Editor’s Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe

Trust and Total Factor Productivity: What Do We Know About Effect Size and Causal Pathways? pp. 3-28

Conal Smith

Productivity, Zombie Firms and Exit Barriers in Portugal pp. 29-49

Christian Osterhold and Ana Fontoura Gouveia

Transatlantic Technologies: The Role of ICT in the Evolution of U.S. and European Productivity Growth pp. 50-80

Robert J. Gordon and Hassan Sayed

Lessons from Productivity Comparisons of Germany, Japan, and the United States pp. 81-103

Martin Neil Baily, Barry Bosworth and Siddhi Doshi

Does Disappointing European Productivity Growth Reflect a Slowing Trend? Weighing the Evidence and Assessing the Future pp. 104-135

John Fernald and Robert Inklaar

The World Bank Perspective on Productivity: A Review Article on "Productivity Revisited: Shifting Paradigms in Analysis and Policy" pp. 136-144

Don Drummond

Measuring Performance and Accountability in Higher Education: A Review Article on "Productivity in Higher Education" pp. 145-154

Mary O'Mahony

Volume 37, month Fall, 2019

Editor’s Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe

The Industry Anatomy of the Transatlantic Productivity Growth Slowdown: Europe Chasing the American Frontier pp. 3-38

Robert J. Gordon and Hassan Sayed

Digitalization and Productivity: In Search of the Holy Grail - Firm-level Empirical Evidence from European Countries pp. 39-71

Peter Gal, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Christina von Rüden, Stéphane Sorbe and Théodore Renault

Does Import Competition Reduce Domestic Innovation? Evidence from the China Shock and Firm-level Data on Canadian Manufacturing pp. 40-95

Myeongwan Kim

Frontier Firms, Productivity Dispersion and Aggregate Productivity Growth in Canada pp. 96-119

Wulong Gu

Is R&D Enough in Improving Firm Productivity? pp. 120-143

Jianmin Tang and Weimin Wang

Consistency Issues in the Construction of Annual and Quarterly Productivity Indices pp. 144-155

Bert Balk

The Oxford Handbook of Productivity Analysis edited by Emili Grifell-Tatjé, Knox Lovell and Robin Sickles: A Review Article pp. 156-161

Marshall Reinsdorf

Volume 36, month Spring, 2019

Introduction pp. 1-6

Dale Jorgenson

Toward a Global Integrated Industry-level Production Account: A Proposal pp. 7-33

Jon Samuels and Erich Strassner

The Composition of Capital and Cross-Country Productivity Comparisons pp. 34-52

Robert Inklaar, Pieter Woltjer and Daniel Gallardo-Albarrán

Global Value Chains and Productivity Growth: Does Intangible Capital Matter? pp. 53-78

Cecilia Jona-Lasinio and Valentina Meliciana

Structural Change and Productivity in the Market Economy of Mainland Norway, 1997-2014 pp. 79-109

Gang Liu

The UK and Western Productivity Puzzle: Does Arthur Lewis Hold the Key? pp. 110-141

Nicholas Oulton

Japan's Prefectural-Level KLEMS: Productivity Comparisons and Service Price Differences pp. 142-160

Joji Tokui and Takeshi Mizuta

Educational Intensity and the Sources of, and Prospects for, U.S. Economic Growth pp. 161-186

Dale Jorgenson, Mun Ho and Jon Samuels

New BEA-BLS Estimates of the Sources of U.S. Economic Growth between 1987 and 2016 pp. 187-203

Corby Garner, Justin Harper, Thomas F. Howells, Matt Russell and Jon Samuels

Knowledge Intensity in a Set of Latin American Countries: Implications for Productivity pp. 204-233

Matilde Mas, André Hofman and Eva Benages

Volume 35, month Fall, 2018

Editor’s Overview pp. 1-4

Andrew Sharpe

Puzzles and Surprises in Employment and Productivity in U.S. Manufacturing After the Great Recession pp. 5-27

Richard Schmalensee

The Stylized Facts about Slower Productivity Growth in Canada pp. 52-72

Andrew Sharpe and John Tsang

Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States: Recent Industry Trends and Potential Explanations pp. 73-94

Wulong Gu and Michael Willox

The Productivity Slowdown in Canada: an ICT Phenomenon? pp. 95-112

Jeff Mollins and Pierre St-Amant

Canadian Productivity Growth, Secular Stagnation, and Technological Change pp. 113-137

Michelle Alexopoulos and Jon Cohen

Is Slow Productivity and Output Growth in Advanced Economies the New Normal? pp. 138-148

John Fernald

What Do We Know About the Productivity Slowdown? Evidence from Australian Industry Data pp. 149-156

Kevin Fox

Volume 34, month Fall, 2018

Solving the Productivity Puzzle: The Role of Demand and the Promise of Digitization pp. 28-51

Jaana Remes, Jan Mischke and Mekala Krishnan

Volume 34, month Spring, 2018

Editor’s Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe

The Gains from More Competitive Regulation Settings in Canada pp. 3-20

Aled ab Iorwerth and Carlos Rosell

Accounting for Slower Productivity Growth in the Canadian Business Sector after 2000: The Role of Capital Measurement Issues pp. 21-39

Wulong Gu

Can the Kiwi Fly? Achieving Productivity Lift-off in New Zealand pp. 40-63

Paul Conway

The Changing Structure of Global Value Chains: Are Central Hubs Key for Productivity? pp. 64-80

Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Timmis

What Explains the Post-2004 U.S. Productivity Slowdown? pp. 81-109

Alexander Murray

Cyclical Downturn or Slowing Trend? A Review Article on Productivity Puzzles across Europe pp. 110-117

John Fernald

What's New About Capitalism?: A Review Article on Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy pp. 118-123

Chad Syverson