How--you might reasonably ask--could so many questions remain after so much research on this key topic? The answer--I submit--is not that the productivity of my fellow economists is low or that the economics profession has failed in a key mission. Rather, it is that the underlying sources of productivity growth are very complex.
Luis de Guindos: Benjamin Moll’s contribution to macroeconomics Remarks by Mr Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, on the occasion of the award of the Bernácer Prize to Benjamin Moll, Professor of Economics at Princeton University, organised by the Bank of Span, Madrid, 23 November 2018.