1998 Annual Meeting of the American Economics Association
The CSLS has been invited to organize a session on the productivity paradox at the upcoming annual meeting of the
American Economic Association in Chicago in January 1998. The session is one of the sessions on economic growth
coordinated by Paul Romer of Stanford University. The details of the AEA session are given below.
Is Technological Change Speeding Up or Slowing Down?
January 4, 1998, 10:00 AM
Chair: Andrew Sharpe, Centre for the Study of Living Standards
Papers
 Information Technology and Its Impact
on Firm-level Productivity: Evidence from Government and Private Data
Sources, 1977-1993
SIZE: 42 pages, 168 KB
William Lehr and Frank Lichtenberg, Columbia University
The Productivity Paradox: Evidence from Indirect Indicators
of Service Sector Productivity Growth
SIZE: 42 pages, 141 KB
Ed Wolff, New York University
"The Solow Productivity Paradox: What Do Computers Do to Productivity?"
Jack Triplett, Brookings Institution
The Productivity Paradox and the Measurement Issue:
Is Biased Technical Change Fueling Dualism?
SIZE: 37 pages, 137 KB
Pascal Petit, CEPREMAP and Luc Soete, MERIT
Discussants:
Martin Baily, McKinsey and Company
Tim Bresnahan, Stanford University
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