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# Appendix: VAR Results for Labour Productivity and Technology Indicators

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# Appendix: VAR Results for Labour Productivity and Technology Indicators

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Alexopoulos, Michelle, and Jon Cohen. 2018. “Appendix: VAR Results for Labour Productivity and Technology Indicators.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 35 (Fall 2018): 1–7. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-35/appendix-var-results-for-labour-productivity-and-technology-indicators/

## Authors:

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Michelle Alexopoulos
Department of Economics, University of Toronto

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Jon Cohen
Department of Economics, University of Toronto

## IPM Issue 35

Fall 2018 pp. 1–7

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Appendix to IPM-35-6 presenting robustness checks using labour productivity (instead of MFP) and technology stocks (instead of flows) in VAR models, plus depreciation rate assumptions used to construct technology stock estimates from book-title indicators.

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