New Developments in Productivity Analysis

Prefatory Note and Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Charles R. Hulten Edwin R. Dean Michael J. Harper Total Factor Productivity: A Short Biography 1(54) Charles R. Hulten Jack E. Triplett The BLS Productivity Measurement Program 55(30) Edwin R. Dean Michael J. Harper Which (Old) Ideas on Productivity Measurement Are Ready to Use? 85(18) W. Erwin Diewert Dynamic Factor Demand Models and Productivity Analysis 103(70) M. Ishaq Nadiri Ingmar R. Prucha Dale W. Jorgenson After ``Technical Progress and the Aggregate Production Function'' 173(6) Robert M. Solow Accounting for Growth 179(46) Jeremy Greenwood Boyan Jovanovic Barry Bosworth Why Is Productivity Procyclical? Why Do We Care? 225(78) Susanto Basu John Fernald Catherine J. Morrison Paul Aggregate Productivity Growth: Lessons from Microeconomic Evidence 303(70) Lucia Foster John Haltiwanger C. J. Krizan Mark J. Roberts Sources of Productivity Growth in the American Coal Industry: 1972--95 373(46) Denny Ellerman Thomas M. Stoker Ernst R. Berndt Larry Rosenblum Service Sector Productivity Comparisons: Lessons for Measurement 419(46) Martin Neil Baily Eric Zitzewitz Robert J. Gordon Different Approaches to International Comparison of Total Factor Productivity 465(44) Nazrul Islam Charles I. Jones Whatever Happened to Productivity Growth? 509(32) Dale W. Jorgenson Eric Yip Productivity of the U.S. Agricultural Sector: The Case of Undesirable Outputs 541(46) V. Eldon Ball Rolf Fare Shawna Grosskopf Richard Nehring Robin C. Sickles Total Resource Productivity: Accounting for Changing Environmental Quality 587(22) Frank M. Gollop Gregory P. Swinand William Pizer A Perspective on What We Know About the Sources of Productivity Growth 609(4) Zvi Griliches Contributors 613(4) Author Index 617(8) Subject Index 625