Productivity measurement and r&d assets

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Productivity measurement and r&d assets Paul Schreyer and Belen Zinni OECD Statistics and Data Directorate World KLEMS Conference May 2018

SNA 2008: R&D capitalisation Added source of capital services Is R&D special? ‘Shifter’ rather than individual contributor Upfront investments, non-constant returns, mark-ups Hard to measure

R&D as a ‘shifter’ Restricted cost function

Productivity measurement with a shadow price for R&D… Problems: endogeneity and errors in variables

…no strong arguments for econometric measure of shadow price for R&D… Cost-elasticities of R&D: distribution of unrestricted measures and econometric results

…but returns to scale are retained… Direct and reverse estimates Various combinations of fixed effects for countries and years 12 results between 0.8 and 1.6 We settle for geometric average ε*=1.2 In line with Diewert and Fox (2008), Basu and Fernald (1997)

…de-composition of MFP growth…

…both effects are important… Scale effects and residual MFP, Average annual percentage change, 1985-2015 Source: authors’ calculations, based on OECD Productivity Database October 2017.

…policy relevance… Effect of demand on productivity longer-term demand effects (eg from rising income inequality and declining average propensity to consume (Summers 2015) or precautionary savings by low incomes (Auclert and Rognlie 2018) Short term procyclical nature of productivity growth Basu and Fernald (1997) Market size matters for MFP: positive effects of expanding trade and vice versa Increasing returns to scale imply the existence of mark-ups over marginal costs – relevant for competition policy?

…mark-ups over marginal costs… M*t = nominal value of output at basic prices minus labour compensation minus user costs of capital Average mark-up factor 1+m*t, across all countries and years is around 1.3 or a 30% addition to marginal costs Possible reasons: Need to cover average costs Pure rents Unmeasured inputs (KBC) R&D services from headquarters Under-stated returns to measured capital….

…have been rising nearly everywhere… Mark-ups over marginal costs 1Ireland, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain: 2014 Source: authors’ calculations, based on OECD Productivity Database October 2017.

In conclusion R&D capital stock measures now widely available in OECD countries Measurement of R&D capital services more complicated than other assets, and potentially R&D has a different role in production Established index number approach still appears to be the most sensible way Evidence for moderately increasing returns at the aggregate economy level This implies effect from output and demand on MFP The dual picture is mark-ups over marginal costs that have trended upwards This chimes well with effects of globalisation and digitalisation but other causes possible as well.

Updated version of the paper with latest data from the OECD Productivity Compendium forthcoming Thank you!