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Appendices to Internationally Comparable Science, Technology and Competitiveness Indicators

McGuckin, Robert H.; Ark, Bart van; Dougherty, Sean M.; … - The Conference Board - 2006

Report on US National Science Foundation Grant SRS/SES 00-99594

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Europe's Productivity Gap: Catching Up or Getting Stuck?

Ark, Bart van - The Conference Board - 2006

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the International Symposium on Productivity, Competitiveness and Globalisation at Banque de France on 4 November 2005. The present paper is updated and extended. The paper makes use of earlier work, including Van Ark (2005), O’Mahony and Van...

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The Structure of Business R&D: Recent Trends and Measurement Implications

McGuckin, Robert H.; Inklaar, Robert; Ark, Bart van; … - The Conference Board - 2004

Competitiveness Indicators” (SRS00-99594) and the International Economic program of The Conference Board. Inklaar, McGuckin and van … Ark are with The Conference Board and Growth and Development Center of the University of Groningen and Sean Dougherty is …

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What Role for the Private Sector in Public Statistics?

McGuckin, Robert H. - The Conference Board - 2004

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Constructing a Price Deflator for R&D: Calculating the Price of Knowledge Investments as a Residual

Corrado, Carol; Goodridge, Peter; Haskel, Jonathan - The Conference Board - 2011

We model the production and use of knowledge investment and show how the model can be used to infer the unknown price of knowledge using two approaches. The first is often used by national accounting offices and is based on costs in the knowledge-producing sector. We show this implicitly assumes...

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Projecting Economic Growth with Growth Accounting Techniques: The Conference Board Global Economic Outlook 2012 Sources and Methods

Chen, Vivian; Cheng, Ben; Levanon, Gad; Ark, Bart van - The Conference Board - 2011

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Using a Leading Credit Index to Predict Turning Points in the U.S. Business Cycle

Levanon, Gad; Manini, Jean-Claude; Ozyildirim, Ataman; … - The Conference Board - 2011

Financial indicators such as yield curves and stock prices have been extensively used as leading indicators of economic activity due to their forward looking content. Indeed, the Leading Economic Index (LEI) for the United States, a widely used forecasting tool for business cycle turning points,...

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Communication Capital, Metcalfe’s Law, and U.S. Productivity Growth

Corrado, Carol A. - The Conference Board - 2011

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Constructing a Data Set on Labour Composition Change

Bonthuis, Boele - The Conference Board - 2011

methodology of The Conference Board Total Economy Database 2010, however minor changes to these data set with respect to sources …

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Comprehensive Benchmark Revisions for The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® for the United States

Levanon, Gad; Ozyildirim, Ataman; Schaitkin, Brian; … - The Conference Board - 2011

Following an extensive reevaluation of existing indicators included in The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® for … business and economic conditions using questions from surveys conducted by Reuters/University of Michigan and The Conference … Board; and 4) replacing “New Orders for (nondefense) Capital Goods” with “New Orders for (nondefense) Capital Goods …

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