IMF Staff Country Reports

United States: Selected Issues

October 31, 1997

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United States: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed November 27, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper on the United States analyzes problems in the measurement of output and prices. The paper examines income versus expenditure measures of national output. Sources of consumer price index and findings of the Boskin Commission are discussed, and mismeasurement of output and productivity is analyzed. Developments in productivity across industries in the United States are described. In particular, the paper focuses on the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth that began in the mid-1970s and examines whether this slowdown has continued in recent years and is common across industries.

Subject: Financial institutions, Labor, Labor productivity, Production, Productivity, Securities, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Balance budget agreement, CR, DAC participant, Earnings ratio, Europe, Global, ISCR, Labor productivity, Medicare, Mutual-fund inflow, Outlay, Price, Productivity, Securities, Total factor productivity, Trust fund assets

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    110

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 1997/097

  • Stock No:

    1USAEA0011997

  • ISBN:

    9781451839494

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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