Hedonic Price Indexes and the Measurement of Capital and Productivity: Some Historical Reflections / Zvi Griliches.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griliches, Zvi.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w2634.

NBER working paper series no. w2634

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Hedonic Price Indexes and the Measurement of Capital and Productivity

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1988.

Summary:

The paper describes the background for my original "hedonics" paper (Griliches 1961) and discusses some of the issues raised by the subsequent literature on this range of topics. It goes on to consider some of the implications of this work for the measurement of capital services and connects it to the Jorgenson-Griliches (1967) paper on the "explanation of productivity change." It reviews the criticisms made against that paper, especially the use of a utilization adjustment, and fin& itself, perhaps unsurprisingly, still in sympathy with its major thrust. It also cautions against interpreting the recent slowdown in the growth of total factor productivity as implying, necessarily, a parallel slowdown in the technological potential of the economy.

Notes:

Print version record

June 1988.