% 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{NBERw24023, title = "Missing Growth from Creative Destruction", author = "Aghion, Philippe and Bergeaud, Antonin and Boppart, Timo and Klenow, Peter J and Li, Huiyu", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "24023", year = "2017", month = "November", doi = {10.3386/w24023}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w24023", abstract = {Statistical agencies typically impute inflation for disappearing products based on surviving products, which may result in overstated inflation and understated growth. Using U.S. Census data, we apply two ways of assessing the magnitude of “missing growth” for private nonfarm businesses from 1983–2013. The first approach exploits information on the market share of surviving plants. The second approach applies indirect inference to firm-level data. We find: (i) missing growth from imputation is substantial — at least 0.6 percentage points per year; and (ii) most of the missing growth is due to creative destruction (as opposed to new varieties).}, }