Huiyu Li
How Does Business Dynamism Link to Productivity Growth?
FRBSF, 2017
What's inside?
The declines in US business turnover and in productivity growth may not be related.
Recommendation
Economist Huiyu Li examines whether the current slowdown in productivity, beginning shortly before the 2008 financial crisis, is linked to the long-run and ongoing decline in business shutdowns and inceptions in the United States. Li suggests that officials crafting economic policy need to better understand whether the animal spirits of entrepreneurship are truly a defining element of long-term productivity growth and subsequent economic expansion, or if there are alternative explanations. getAbstract recommends this concise and engaging report to executives, business owners and policy experts interested in analyzing the relationships among business formation, productivity and economic growth.
Summary
About the Author
Huiyu Li is an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Comment on this summary
The author fails to point out what has changed in the existing businesses' practices to lead her to put her faith for a durable future growth in the same businesses that lead us to the great recession in the first place?