Accounting for growth in retail trade: an international productivity comparison |
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Authors: | Robert Inklaar Marcel P Timmer |
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Institution: | (1) Groningen Growth and Development Centre, Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | In this paper we argue that the standard approach for measuring output and productivity in the trade sector has become obsolete.
The key problem is that changes in prices of goods purchased for resale are not accounted for. We outline a consistent accounting
framework for measuring trade productivity and provide new estimates, taking into account purchase prices of goods sold in
a double deflation procedure. We find strong productivity improvements in the UK and US compared to France, Germany and The
Netherlands since the mid-1990s. This finding is robust for various productivity measurement models.
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Keywords: | Productivity Retail trade International comparisons Double deflation |
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