Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Microeconomics 1993: 2

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Contents Include:

Articles

BART VAN ARK and DIRK PILAT

Productivity Levels in Germany, Japan, and the United States: Differences and Causes

MARTIN NEIL BAILY

Competition, Regulation, and Efficiency in Service Industries

ROBERT Z. LAWRENCE and MATTHEW J. SLAUGHTER

International Trade and American Wages in the 1980s: Giant Sucking Sound or Small Hiccup?

RICHARD E. CAVES and MATTHEW B. KREPPS

Fat: The Displacement of Nonproduction Workers from U.S. Manufacturing Industries

BRONWYN H. HALL

Industrial Research During the 1980s: Did the Rate of Return Fall?

PAUL M. ROMER

Implementing a National Technology Strategy with Self-Organizing Investment Boards