U.S. Productivity and Electronic Processes in Manufacturing

摘要: Recent studies argue that the use of information technology is a significant source U.S. productivity growth. Official data on this have been scarce. New official electronic business processes (business such as procurement, payroll, inventory, etc.,conducted over computer networks) in manufacturing sector United States were recently released. Preliminary estimates based these are consistent with some results literature. However, they also raise questions requiring additional detailed micro analysis.