The impact of plant-level resource reallocations and technical progress on U.S. macroeconomic growth

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-26

  Petrin, Amil ^a,b   White, T Kirk ^c   Reiter, Jerome P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregate productivity growth; Macroeconomic fluctuations; Reallocation; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650588884     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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