Missing growth from creative destruction
Philippe Aghion,
Antonin Bergeaud,
Timo Boppart,
Pete Klenow and
Huiyu Li
CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
Abstract:
Statistical agencies typically impute inflation for disappearing products based on surviving products, which may result in overstated inflation and understated growth. Using U.S. Census data, we apply two ways of assessing the magnitude of "missing growth" for private nonfarm businesses from 1983-2013. The first approach exploits information on the market share of surviving plants. The second approach applies indirect inference to firm-level data. We find: (i) missing growth from imputation is substantial — at least 0.6 percentage points per year; and (ii) most of the missing growth is due to creative destruction (as opposed to new varieties).
Keywords: growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-11-20
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ino
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (29)
Downloads: (external link)
https://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1514.pdf (application/pdf)
Related works:
Journal Article: Missing Growth from Creative Destruction (2019) 
Working Paper: Missing Growth from Creative Destruction (2019)
Working Paper: Missing Growth from Creative Destruction (2019)
Working Paper: Missing Growth from Creative Destruction (2018) 
Journal Article: Missing Growth from Creative Destruction (2017) 
Working Paper: Missing Growth from Creative Destruction (2017) 
Working Paper: Missing Growth from Creative Destruction (2017) 
Working Paper: Missing growth from creative destruction (2017) 
Working Paper: Missing Growth from Creative Destruction (2017) 
Working Paper: Missing Growth from Creative Destruction (2017) 
Working Paper: Missing Growth from Creative Destruction (2017) 
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cep:cepdps:dp1514
Access Statistics for this paper
More papers in CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().