Productivity, Volume 3: Information Technology and the American Growth Resurgence, vol 3

Dale Jorgenson, Mun Ho and Kevin J. Stiroh ()
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Kevin J. Stiroh: Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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Abstract: The American economy has experienced renewed growth since 1995, with this surge rooted in the development and deployment of information technology (IT). This book traces the American growth resurgence to its sources within individual industries, documents the critical role of IT, and shows how U.S. investment in IT has important parallels in other developed countries. In analyzing the experience in the United States, the authors identify four IT-producing industries, 17 IT-using industries, and 23 non-IT industries and show that the IT-producing and IT-using industries play a disproportionate role in the American growth resurgence. These industries account for only about 30 percent of US GDP but contributed half of the acceleration in economic growth. The study finds that differences in the relative importance of IT-producing industries in other G7 countries have contributed to wide disparities in the impact of IT on economic growth.

Keywords: productivity; information technology; american growth resurgence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0-262-10111-4
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