Accounting for growth in retail trade: An international productivity comparison

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-31

  Inklaar, Robert ^a   Timmer, Marcel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Double deflation; International comparisons; Productivity; Retail trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349040686     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-007-0062-6     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. van Ark B, Inklaar R, McGuckin RH (2003) ICT and productivity in Europe and the United States. Where do the differences come from? CESifo Econo Stud 49(3):295-318
2. Baily M (1986) Productivity growth and materials use in US manufacturing. Quart J Econ 111:185-195
3. Betancourt R, Gautschi D (1993) The outputs of retail activities: concepts, measurement and evidence from US census data. Rev Econ Stat 75:294-301
4. Diewert WE, Smith AM (1994) Productivity measurement for a distribution firm. J Product Anal, 5:335-347
5. European Commission (2004), The EU Economy 2004 Review, European Economy. No 6. 2004. Office for Official Publications of the EC. Luxembourg
6. Eurostat (2001), Handbook on price and volume measures in national accounts, European commission, Luxembourg
7. Groningen Growth and Development Centre (2004), 60-industry database, October 2004 at www.ggdc.net
8. Gordon RJ (2004) Why was Europe left at the station when America's productivity locomotive departed? CEPR Discussion Papers, no. 4416, London
9. Inklaar R, O'Mahony M, Timmer MP (2005) ICT and Europe's productivity performance industry-level growth account comparisons with the United States. Rev Income Wealth, 51(4):505-536
10. Jorgenson DW, Gollop FM, Fraumeni BM (1987) Productivity and US economic growth. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press
11. Jorgenson DW, Ho MS, Stiroh KJ (2005) Information Technology and the American Growth Resurgence, MIT Press
12. Manser M (2005) Productivity measures for retail trade: data and issues. Montly Labor Rev 30-38
13. McGuckin RH, Spiegelman M, van Ark B (2005) Perspectives on a global economy: the US advantage in trade performance. How can Europe catch-up? The Conference Board
14. OECD (1995) Services: measuring real value added, OECD, Paris
15. OECD (2001) OECD productivity manual: a guide to the measurement of industry-level and aggregate productivity growth, OECD, Paris
16. Oi W (1992) Productivity in the distributive trades: the shopper and the economies of massed reserves. In: Griliches Z (ed) Output Measurement in the Service Sectors. University of Chicago Press
17. Sharp P (2003) Gross domestic product: output approach (gross value added)-Revised. National Statistics Methodology Series NSM 32, London: ONS
18. Timmer MP, Inklaar R, van Ark B (2005) Alternative output measurement for the US retail trade sector. Montly Labor Rev 2-8
19. Timmer MP, Inklaar R (2005) Productivity differentials in the US and EU distributive trade sector: statistical myth or reality? GGDC Research Memorandum GD-76, Groningen Growth and Development Center
20. Timmer MP, Ypma G (2006) Productivity in distributive trades: new comparisons for OECD countries. GGDC research memorandum GD-83, Groningen growth and development center
21. Triplett J (1996) High tech industry productivity and hedonic price indices. In: OECD, industry productivity. International comparison and measurement issues, OECD Proceedings, Paris, pp 119-142
22. Triplett J, Bosworth B (2004) Productivity in the US services sector. New sources of economic growth. The Brookings Institution, Washington DC
23. Wyckoff AW (1995) The impact of computer prices on international comparisons of labor productivity. Econ Innovat New Technol 3:277-293