A new decomposition approach to growth accounting: Derivation of the formula and its application to prewar Japan

Japan and the World Economy

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-14

  Sonobe, Tetsushi ^a   Otsuka, Keijiro ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capital deepening; Growth accounting; Structural transformation; Total factor productivity growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013130114     PISSN: 09221425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0922-1425(00)00050-5     Document Type: Article

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