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Catherine J. Morrison

Researcher at Tufts University

Publications -  23
Citations -  1655

Catherine J. Morrison is an academic researcher from Tufts University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Productivity & Capacity utilization. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 23 publications receiving 1606 citations. Previous affiliations of Catherine J. Morrison include University of California, Davis & National Bureau of Economic Research.

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High-tech capital formation and economic performance in U.S. manufacturing industries An exploratory analysis

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore relationships between industry performance measures and investments in high-tech office and information technology capital for two-digit manufacturing industries from 1968 through 1986, and find limited evidence of a positive relationship between profitability and the share of hightech capital in the total physical capital stock.
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High-tech capital formation and labor composition in u.s. manufacturing industries: an exploratory analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, an exploratory effort examining relationships between investments in high-tech information technology capital and the distribution of employment, both by occupation and by level of educational attainment, was conducted.
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Adjusting output and productivity indexes for changes in the terms of trade

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ index number theory in addressing the problem of adjusting real national income and real domestic product for changes in a country's terms of trade, using recent developments in the theory of production.
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Primal and Dual Capacity Utilization: An Application to Productivity Measurement in the U.S. Automobile Industry

TL;DR: In this article, the definitions and representations of primal-output and dual-cost capacity utilization measures are formalized within a dynamic model of a monopolistic firm, and a model is estimated for the U.S. automobile industry, 1959-1980, and primal and dual CU measures are provided.
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Capacity Utilization Measures: Underlying Economic Theory and an Alternative Approach

TL;DR: A number of alternative measures of industrial capacity utilization are periodically calculated and published; the 1980 Economic Report of the President, for example, contains three series, that by the Federal Reserve Board, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Bureau of Economic Analysis) and the Wharton School of Finance.