IPM Issue 1 Editor’s Overview

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Abstract

The inaugural editorial overview introduces the International Productivity Monitor, a new CSLS publication aimed at focusing attention on productivity’s importance for living standards. It summarizes the eight articles in the first issue, covering Canada’s new economy productivity outlook, the U.S. service sector productivity renaissance, a regional Canada-US living standards comparison, postwar OECD productivity convergence, price cap regulation and TFP, and a three-article symposium on measuring and interpreting total factor productivity.

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