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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
卷 76, 期 3, 页码 909-933出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050716000772
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Standard productivity measures indicate large fluctuations in technology during the Great Depression. This article's historical technology series (1892-1966), controlled for aggregation effects, varying input utilization, non-constant returns, and imperfect competition, does not indicate technology regress such that could trigger the downturn. In contrast, technology improvements in the recovery were so rapid that, over the whole Great Depression period, technology growth was highest among pre-WWII decades. This article also finds that output changed little and inputs fell when technology improved in the pre-WWII period. Real-business-cycle models have difficulty in explaining pre-WWII business cycles characterized by such responses.
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