Showing posts with label productivity growth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label productivity growth. Show all posts
Friday, November 13, 2020

13/11/20: The economy has two chronic illnesses (and neither are Covid)

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My column for The Currency  this week covers two key long-term themes in the global economy that pre-date the pandemic and will remain in pl...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

24/2/19: Buybacks vs Capex

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U.S. corporates spending or 'investing' over the last 10 years: CapEx ($6.4T), including often non-productive M&As Buyback...
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

9/1/19: Twin Secular Stagnations Thesis: Productivity Growth

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For those of you following my coverage of the Twin Secular Stagnations thesis, here is more recent evidence on sluggish productivity, via ...
Friday, July 13, 2018

12/7/18: Romania's Uneven convergence Path: 2007-2018

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A new World Bank report, led by Donato De Rosa, covers Romania's reforms and economic development experience. Worth a read! | "F...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

13/3/18: Another Brick in the Secular Stagnation Wall

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Another brick in the Secular Stagnation Wall: global productivity growth has now collapsed in all  major groups of economies: And the...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

17/7/17: New Study Confirms Parts of Secular Stagnation Thesis

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For some years I have been writing about the phenomena of the twin secular stagnations (see here:  http://trueeconomics.blogspot.com/2015/...
Saturday, September 3, 2016

3/9/16: Innovation policies scorecards: Euro Area and BRIC

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An interesting, albeit rather arbitrary (in terms of methodology) assessment matrix for innovation environment rankings across a range o...
Friday, May 27, 2016

26/5/16: After the Crisis: Why the Slowdown in Productivity Growth?

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My article for Cayman Financial Review  2Q 2016 is out, covering the structural nature of labour productivity growth decline in post-crisi...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

24/11/15: Europe's Dead Donkey of Productivity Growth

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Remember the mythology of European productivity miracles: The EU is at least as competitive as the U.S. (with Lisbon Agenda completed, ...
Thursday, June 4, 2015

4/6/15: Trend-spotting Out in 3 Key Charts

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If you want to understand the German (and the Euro area) economy key trend, here are three charts: Source for all:  http://www....
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

13/8/2014: The Dutch Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Paradox

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Staying the course of the previous two posts, here is another interesting study relating to entrepreneurship, this time looking into polic...
Monday, July 21, 2014

21/7/2014: Russian Economy 1995-2008: Growth Drivers and Future Potential

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Very insightful paper on Russian economic growth - sources and drivers - over the period of 1995-2008. "When high growth is not enoug...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

15/5/2014: Jobs & Employment: Lot Done, More to Do, Still

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The is an unedited version of my Sunday Times article from April 27. As cooperative organisations go, Paris-based OECD is one of the...
Friday, August 16, 2013

16/8/2013: David Rosenberg Breaks Consensus on Long-Term Inflation

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The most important note on the market written in the last 12 months, if not longer (and for those forward looking - the most important note...
Friday, October 19, 2012

19/10/2012: FDI: It ain't all it is claimed to be...

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Quite an interesting little study out of the US worth reading ( link here to an earlier version). Christian Fons-Rosen, Sebnem Kalemli...