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Facing Up to Low Productivity Growth
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Facing Up to Low Productivity Growth

Edited by Adam S. Posen (PIIE) and Jeromin Zettelmeyer (PIIE)
February 2019
Anna Stansbury (Harvard Kennedy School)
PIIE/Jeremey Tripp
Past Event

Book Release: Facing Up to Low Productivity Growth

Karen Dynan (PIIE), Jeromin Zettelmeyer (PIIE), Adam S. Posen (PIIE) and Anna Stansbury (Harvard University)
March 20, 2019 12:15 PM to 1:30 PM
Karen Dynan: Lower Productivity Growth Will Lead to Burdensome Deficits
Short Videos

Karen Dynan: Lower Productivity Growth Will Lead to Burdensome Deficits

Featuring Karen Dynan (PIIE)
March 20, 2019
Adam S. Posen
Short Videos

Adam Posen: Political Economy Constraints Limit Solutions to Low Productivity Growth

Featuring Adam S. Posen (PIIE)
March 20, 2019
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, January 6, 2016.
REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Policy Brief

Short-Run Effects of Lower Productivity Growth: A Twist on the Secular Stagnation Hypothesis

Olivier Blanchard (PIIE), Guido Lorenzoni (Northwestern University) and Jean Paul L'Huillier (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)
February 2017

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Featuring

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