What Determines Productivity?

Chad Syverson

NBER Working Paper No. 15712
Issued in January 2010

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I thank Eric Bartelsman, Nick Bloom, Roger Gordon, John Haltiwanger, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Ariel Pakes, Amil Petrin, John Van Reenen, and anonymous referees for helpful comments. This work is supported by the NSF (SES-0519062 and SES-0820307), and both the Stigler Center and the Centel Foundation/Robert P. Reuss Faculty Research Fund at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Contact information: University of Chicago Booth School of Business; 5807 S. Woodlawn Ave.; Chicago, IL 60637. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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