United States: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund

No 1997/097, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This Selected Issues paper on the United States analyzes problems in the measurement of output and prices. The paper examines income versus expenditure measures of national output. Sources of consumer price index and findings of the Boskin Commission are discussed, and mismeasurement of output and productivity is analyzed. Developments in productivity across industries in the United States are described. In particular, the paper focuses on the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth that began in the mid-1970s and examines whether this slowdown has continued in recent years and is common across industries.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; Medicare; balance budget agreement; outlay; price; earnings ratio; mutual-fund inflow; trust fund assets; DAC participant; Productivity; Total factor productivity; Labor productivity; Securities; Europe; Global (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 110
Date: 1997-10-31
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