Research subject
Research on the diffusion of technology, the organization of production and the sources of improvements in economic efficiency.
A technological capability creates an opportunity. Its contribution to output depends on adoption, complementary investment, organizational change and the tasks to which it is applied. Expenditure on equipment or software does not measure the productivity improvement by itself.
Labor productivity relates output to labor input; multifactor productivity addresses a broader set of inputs under a specified accounting framework. Changes in industry composition, hours, capacity utilization and measured capital can influence the interpretation.
Research distinguishes a firm’s operational result from an industry average and an aggregate productivity estimate. The relevant denominator and price measure are part of the economic question.
Research Report
This report separates sector composition, capital intensity, and working time in transatlantic productivity comparisons. Official evidence and a reproducible decomposition show why differences within industries require closer examination before aggregate gaps support policy conclusions.
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Official surveys measure different stages of AI adoption. Evidence from the United States, Korea, and Japan and a reproducible workflow calculation distinguish computing expenditure, reported use, labor savings, accepted output, and investment returns.
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UK capital services can increase while capital available per working hour declines. Official growth-accounting evidence clarifies the separate roles of investment, asset replacement, workforce composition, utilization, and the productivity residual.
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Research Report
This report separates sector composition, capital intensity, and working time in transatlantic productivity comparisons. Official evidence and a reproducible decomposition show why differences within industries require closer examination before aggregate gaps support policy conclusions.
Research Report
Official surveys measure different stages of AI adoption. Evidence from the United States, Korea, and Japan and a reproducible workflow calculation distinguish computing expenditure, reported use, labor savings, accepted output, and investment returns.
Economy Study
UK capital services can increase while capital available per working hour declines. Official growth-accounting evidence clarifies the separate roles of investment, asset replacement, workforce composition, utilization, and the productivity residual.
Policy Brief
Research deductions and credits affect different spending decisions and tax calculations. Current IRS materials clarify why timing relief, location changes, input prices, and reclassification must be separated from additional research and innovation outcomes.
Policy Brief
French research credits should be assessed against additional research and wider benefits rather than claims alone. Evidence on the 2008 reform shows why firm size, financing constraints, research history, and the distinction between observed and modeled outcomes matter.
Policy Brief
Canadian clean-technology investment credits depend on eligible property, timing, and labor conditions. This brief separates a statutory credit rate from whole-project support and examines the financing implications of those conditions.
Comparative Study
A U.S.–UK productivity comparison must align sector boundaries, actual hours and output prices. Recent official methodological evidence shows why changes in measured labor input can alter the apparent gap without changing recorded production.
Comparative Study
American historical-base and French volume-based research credits require different evaluation counterfactuals. Worked examples distinguish statutory eligibility, current spending growth, multi-year incentives, and additional research attributable to support, including the effects of firm history and credit usability.
Economic Explainer
A productivity residual records output growth left after measured inputs are accounted for. A transparent growth-accounting exercise shows why that residual cannot, by itself, identify the economic contribution of a particular technology.
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Browse economiesBrowse topicsTechnology spreads through investment, supplier relationships, workers and the entry and growth of firms. Competition can support adoption while adjustment imposes costs on particular firms and tasks. Skills, finance and infrastructure affect which enterprises can put a capability to use.
Industry research examines complementary capacity and investment. Labor and demographics addresses task changes, participation and skills. Data notes examine indicators used to assess economic performance.