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Technological change and the roaring twenties: A neoclassical perspective

This paper addresses the causes of the Roaring Twenties in the United States. In particular, we use a version of the real business cycle model to test the hypothesis that an extraordinary pace of productivity growth was the driving factor. Our motivation comes from the abundance of evidence of signi...

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Published in:Journal of macroeconomics 2009-09, Vol.31 (3), p.363-375
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Innovation
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Productivity
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Real business cycles Roaring twenties
Regression analysis
Roaring twenties
Studies
Technological change
Total factor productivity
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