Measuring and Understanding Productivity in UK Market Services
梳理了英国市场服务业数据的可用性和准确性，指出金融中介和商业服务是测量生产率的主要难点，前者因核算规则导致数据难解读，后者多依赖就业指标。
Many productivity studies, if they cover the service sector, commonly enter a caveat that the data are uncertain or just look at manufacturing. This paper attempts to clarify what UK market-service-sector data are available, whether they should be treated as inaccurate, and what conceptual problems might make measuring service-sector output so hard. Our overall conclusion is that most problems surround financial intermediation and business services. In financial intermediation, national accounts conventions and adjustments make the output data very hard to interpret. In business services many of the output measures are employment based. Elsewhere, for example, retail and wholesale trade, transport, and hotels and restaurants, the main problem is, in practice, lack of collected deflators.