Description: Prefatory Note Introduction Charles R. Hulten 1. Productivity and International Competitiveness in Japan and the United States, 1960-1985 Dale W. Jorgenson and Masahiro Kuroda Comment: Robert M. Schwab 2. Bilateral Models of Production for Japanese and U.S. Industries Dale W. Jorgenson, Hikaru Sakuramoto, Kanji Yoshioka, and Masahiro Kuroda 3. Productivity Growth in the Motor Vehicle Industry, 1970-1984: A Comparison of Canada, Japan, and the United States Melvyn Fuss and Leonard Waverman 4. Comparison and Analysis of Productivity Growth and R&D Investment in the Electrical Machinery Industries of the United States and Japan M. Ishaq Nadiri and Ingmar R. Prucha 5. Decisions of Firms and Productivity Growth with Fixed Input Constraints: An Empirical Comparison of U.S. and Japanese Manufacturing Catherine Morrison Comment: Ingmar R. Prucha 6. Energy Price Shocks and Productivity Growth in the Japanese and U.S. Manufacturing Industries Ernst R. Berndt, Shunseke Mori, Takamitsu Sawa, and David O. Wood Comment: Kanji Yoshioka 7. Productivity Growth and Changes in the Terms of Trade in Japan and the United States Catherine Morrison and W. Erwin Diewert 8. Alternative Measures of Capital Inputs in Japanese Manufacturing Edwin Dean, Masako Darrough, and Arthur Neef Comment: Masahiro Kuroda 9. The Taxation of Income from Capital in Japan: Historical Perspectives and Policy Simulations Tatsuya Kikutani and Toshiaki Tachibanaki 10. Taxes and Corporate Investment in Japanese Manufacturing Fumio Hayashi 11. R&D and Productivity Growth: Comparing Japanese and U.S. Manufacturing Firms Zvi Griliches and Jacques Mairesse Comment: Edwin Mansfield Reply: Zvi Griliches and Jacques Mairesse 12. Compositional Change of Heterogeneous Labor Input and Economic Growth in Japan Hajime Imamura Comment: Walter Y. Oi 13. Technical Change and Human Capital Acquisition in the U.S. and Japanese Labor Markets Hong W. Tan Comment: Romesh Diwan 14. Labor Disputes and Productivity in Japan and the United States Alice C. Lam, J. R. Norsworthy, and Craig A. Zabala Comment: Mary Jean Bowman List of Contributors Author Index Subject Index

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