US-France Cooperative Research: Collaborative Studies of of Industrial Productivity

该奖项将支持哈佛大学Zvi Griliches博士与法国巴黎高等社会科学研究学院（EHESS）和法国国家统计与行政经济学院（ENSAE）的Jacques maresse博士在工业生产力主题方面的持续合作研究。在格里里奇斯博士的指导下，国家经济研究局在NSF的支持下，过去几年一直在这一领域进行一项重大研究。迄今为止，Griliches博士和Mairesse博士的联合研究主要集中在两个主题上：生产率增长的比较研究和面板数据分析中的计量经济学问题。它们现在将扩展到第三个领域：在企业和行业层面衡量产出和价格，作为正确理解生产率变动的先决条件。在第一个领域，他们一直在研究研发支出对美国、法国和日本公司生产率增长的影响；还比较了法国和美国公司的增长模式。这导致了一项比较日本和美国制造业生产率增长和研发回报的主要研究，以及两项分别对美国和法国个别公司增长的平行研究。目前的奖励将允许调查人员使用更新和更广泛的数据扩展和更新他们的日本制造业研究。他们还计划扩大先前的美日比较，将法国公司的类似结果直接进行比较。其他研究主题将包括：1)产出和价格的测量；2)利用欧洲更新率数据分析专利数据，以推断专利知识的私人价值的过时率，以及这些价值的大小和分布。格里里奇斯博士和迈莱斯博士都是这一经济学研究领域备受推崇的专家。

This award will support continued collaborative research on the topic of industrial productivity between Dr. Zvi Griliches, Harvard University and Dr. Jacques Mairesse, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE), Paris, France. The National Bureau of Economic Research, under the direction of Dr. Griliches, has been conducting a major study in this area for the last several years with support from NSF. Joint research to date between Dr. Griliches and Dr. Mairesse has concentrated on two major topics: comparative studies of productivity growth and econometric issues in the analysis of panel data. They will now expand into a third area: the measurement of output and prices at the firm and industry level as a prerequisite for the correct understanding of movements in productivity. In the first area they have been studying the impact of R&D expenditures on productivity growth of firms in the U.S., France, and Japan, and also comparing the patterns of growth of firms in both France and the U.S. This has resulted in a major study comparing productivity growth and returns to R&D in Japanese and U.S. manufacturing and two parallel studies of individual firm growth in the U.S. and France respectively. The present award will allow the investigators to expand and update their Japanese manufacturing study using newer and more extensive data. They also plan to extend the earlier U.S.-Japan comparison to include a direct comparison to similar results for French firms. Additional topics of study will be 1) measurement of output and prices 2) analysis of patent data using European data on their renewal rates to infer both the rates of obsolescence in the private value of patented knowledge, and the magnitude and distribution of such values. Both Dr. Griliches and Dr. Mairesse are highly regarded experts in this area of economics research.