Fed's Ferguson on lessons from productivity booms

In a speech on 'Lessons from Past Productivity Booms' given on 4 January Roger Ferguson of the Federal Reserve said that there are signs that the impetus behind much of the recent robust gains in U.S. productivity will remain for some years.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association, Ferguson said it was always hard to pinpoint what caused exceptionally strong growth in productivity to fade.

"Both industrial R&D (research and development) and patent applications have

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