Productivity Analysis of U.S. Manufacturing Using a Stochastic-Coefficients Production Function
利用随机系数生产函数分析美国制造业生产率
In this article, we show that the production, aggregation, and estimation theories that lead to a stochastic-coefficients production function are more general than those leading to a fixed-coefficients production function. Estimates of productivity changes implied by these two types of Cobb–Douglas production functions are compared for several U.S. manufacturing sectors for the period 1955–1982. All of the estimates of the stochastic-coefficients Cobb–Douglas function have…