Canadian Productivity Growth, Secular Stagnation, and Technological Change

In this article, we show first that the recent slowdown in productivity growth in Canada, similar to that in the United States, can be attributed at least in part to the fall-off in the commercialization of new technologies. Using our bookbased indicators of technological change, we are able to show...

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Main Authors: Canadian Productivity Growth, Secular Stagnation, and Technological Change, Jon Cohen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre for the Study of Living Standards 2018-09-01
Series:International Productivity Monitor
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Online Access:http://www.csls.ca/ipm/35/Alexopoulos-Cohen.pdf