<p>The details are outlined in the original Business Cycle Accounting-paper by Chari et al. (2007) at <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2007.00768.x" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2007.00768.x</a></p>
<p>A replication is at <a href="https://github.com/JohannesPfeifer/DSGE_mod/tree/master/Chari_et_al_2007" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/JohannesPfeifer/DSGE_mod/tree/master/Chari_et_al_2007</a></p>

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<p>In  Ohanian (2010): The Economic Crisis from a Neoclassical Perspective ( <a href="https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.24.4.45" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.24.4.45</a> ) I read about labor, capital and productivity deviation. I would like to calculate those numbers for the current economic situation (2018 - 2020+) but I don't understand how the calculation works. Can someone explain to me how those are calculated? Which data do I need?</p>
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Calculation of labor, capital and productivity deviation
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# Calculation of labor, capital and productivity deviation

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-04-24)

In Ohanian (2010): The Economic Crisis from a Neoclassical Perspective ( <https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.24.4.45> ) I read about labor, capital and productivity deviation. I would like to calculate those numbers for the current economic situation (2018 - 2020+) but I don't understand how the calculation works. Can someone explain to me how those are calculated? Which data do I need?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2022-04-25. Score: 1

The details are outlined in the original Business Cycle Accounting-paper by Chari et al. (2007) at <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2007.00768.x>

A replication is at <https://github.com/JohannesPfeifer/DSGE_mod/tree/master/Chari_et_al_2007>


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