Computer Saturation and the Productivity Slowdown

Pablo Azar

No 20221006, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: One of the current puzzles in economics is the recent worldwide slowdown in productivity, compared to the late 1990s and early 2000s. This productivity loss is economically large: if productivity growth had stayed at the same level as in 1995-2004, American GDP would have increased by trillions of dollars. In this post, I discuss a new paper that links this productivity slowdown to saturation in electronics adoption across most industries. I show that most of the productivity growth from electronic miniaturization is concentrated between 1985 and 2005.

Keywords: economic growth; Moore's Law (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-10-06
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