Sensitivity of Capital Stock and Multifactor Productivity Estimates to Depreciation Assumptions: A Canada-U.S. Comparison

This article provides consistent estimates for capital stock and multifactor productivity (MFP) for Canada and the United States across major industries for the 1987-2007 period. For this purpose, capital stock estimates are developed for Canadian and U.S. industries using the same asset depreciatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jianmin Tang, Someshwar Rao, Min Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre for the Study of Living Standards 2010-09-01
Series:International Productivity Monitor
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Online Access:http://www.csls.ca/ipm/20/IPM-20-Tang-Rao-Li.pdf