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Trend breaks and the long-run implications of investment-specific technological progress

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I update the Greenwood, Hercowitz, and Krusell (1997) decomposition of U.S. growth into contributions from neutral and investment-specific technological progress. I allow the decomposition to vary across sub-samples, reflecting the presence of trend breaks in the data. The estimates suggest that neutral technological progress explained virtually all growth between 1950 and the mid-1970s. However, investment-specific technological progress accounts for about 75 percent of growth since the 1980s. These results support splitting the postwar sample and using two-sector models to study the recent period.

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  • Moura, Alban, 2021. "Trend breaks and the long-run implications of investment-specific technological progress," MPRA Paper 112350, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    • E13 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Neoclassical
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • O41 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence

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