Volume 41, Number 1, 7-16, DOI: 10.2145/20060101

Potential Growth of the US Economy: Will the Productivity Resurgence Continue?

Dale Jorgenson, Mun Ho and Kevin Stiroh

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the sources of U.S. productivity growth through 2004 and presents medium-term projections for the U.S. economy. We attribute a substantial portion of productivity gains over the past decade to production and use of information technology equipment and software. In the most recent years, we also identify a growing contribution from sources outside the technology- producing sectors. Our base-case projection for the GDP growth rate is almost exactly three percent. We emphasize the substantial range of uncertainty by presenting an optimistic projection of 3.5 percent and a pessimistic projection of only 1.9 percent.

productivity - GDP growth - IT

JEL Classification  D240,E230

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