'Baumol's disease' has been cured: It and multifactor productivity in us services industries

The New Economy and Beyond: Past, Present and Future

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 34-71

  Triplett, Jack E ^a   Bosworth, Barry P ^a  

^a BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

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