기사
Are Technology Improvements Contractionary? /
- 개인저자
- Basu, Susanto ;, Fernald, John G. ;, Kimball, Miles S.;
- 수록페이지
- 1418-1448 p.
- 발행일자
- 2006.12.21
- 출판사
- American Economic Association
초록
[영문]Yes. We construct a measure of aggregate technology change, controlling for aggregation effects, varying utilization of capital and labor, nonconstant returns, and imperfect competition. On impact, when technology improves, input use and nonresidential investment fall sharply. Output changes little. With a lag of several years, inputs and investment return to normal and output rises strongly. The standard one-sector real-business-cycle model is not consistent with this evidence. The evidence is consistent, however, with simple sticky-price models, which predict the results we find: when technology improves, inputs and investment generally fall in the short run, and output itself may also fall.Author(s): Susanto Basu 1, | John G. Fernald 2, | Miles S. Kimball 3