IPM Issue 38 Editor’s Overview

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Abstract

The editorial overview for Issue 38 introduces seven articles examining the productivity slowdown from multiple angles: cross-country differences in productivity responses (Smith); frontier-laggard dynamics in Portugal (Osterhold & Gouveia); the role of the ICT sector in the transatlantic slowdown (Gordon & Sayed); productivity convergence across industries in the U.S., Japan, and Germany (Baily, Bosworth & Doshi); the European productivity slowdown and the role of bubble sectors (Fernald & Inklaar); and two review articles on a book on government productivity (Drummond) and a comparative study of productivity institutions (O’Mahony).

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