% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{NBERw23543, title = "The Disappointing Recovery of Output after 2009", author = "Fernald, John G and Hall, Robert E and Stock, James H and Watson, Mark W", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "23543", year = "2017", month = "June", doi = {10.3386/w23543}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w23543", abstract = {U.S. output has expanded only slowly since the recession trough in 2009, even though the unemployment rate has essentially returned to a pre-crisis, normal level. We use a growth-accounting decomposition to explore explanations for the output shortfall, giving full treatment to cyclical effects that, given the depth of the recession, should have implied unusually fast growth. We find that the growth shortfall has almost entirely reflected two factors: the slow growth of total factor productivity, and the decline in labor force participation. Both factors reflect powerful adverse forces that are largely unrelated to the financial crisis and recession—and that were in play before the recession.}, }