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J. Japanese Int. Economies 17 (2003) 81–100 /locate/jjie Productivity analysis of IT capital stock: The USA–Japan comparison Koji Shinjo a,? and Xingyuan Zhang b a Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University, 2-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nadaku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan b Faculty of Economics, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Okayama 700-8530, Japan Received 19 November 1999; revised 25 July 2002 Shinjo, Koji, and Zhang, Xingyuan—Productivity analysis of IT capital stock: The USA–Japan comparison The purpose of this paper is twofold: The first is to examine the information technology (IT) capital i