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could get more GDP without innovation by simply duplicating existing physical capital and labour (e.g. adding a second … addition existing physical capital and labour. In our measure this is the contribution to GDP growth of market sector … investment in knowledge (or intangible) capital. This contribution is measured from company spending on knowledge …
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This paper provides three perspectives on long-run growth rates of labor productivity (LP) and of multi-factor productivity (MFP) for the U. S. economy. It extracts statistical growth trends for labor productivity from quarterly data for the total economy going back to 1952, provides new...
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measurement error of the Solow residual (Solow 1957) as a measure of total factor productivity (TFP) growth when the capital stock … measurements of TFP growth which do not require capital stocks: one measure eliminates the capital stock by direct substitution …
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member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the marginal impact of ICT capital is higher when it is complemented with … intangible capital, and (b) non-R&D intangible capital has a higher estimated output elasticity than its conventionally …-calculated factor share. These findings suggest investments in knowledge-based capital, i.e., intangible capital, produce productivity …
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recovery (itself driven by changes in capital policies since the world wars) and by the slowdown of productivity and population …-income ratio β is about 300% if g= 3% and 600% if g= 1.5%. Our results have important implications for capital taxation and … regulation and shed new light on the changing nature of wealth, the shape of the production function, and the rise of capital …
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Two distinctive regimes are distinguished in Spain over half-a-millennium. A first one (1270s-1590s) corresponds to a high land-labour ratio frontier economy, pastoral, trade-oriented, and led by towns. Wages and food consumption were relatively high. Sustained per capita growth occurred from...
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Building on the Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests to explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective perceptions. To explore the additional information of these indicators, we analyze...
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Using a dynamic factor model that allows for changes in both the long- run growth rate of output and the volatility of business cycles, we document a significant decline in long-run output growth in the United States. Our evidence supports the view that this slowdown started prior to the Great...
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This study shows that Target2 net claims are a poor measure of Bundesbank loss exposure, and even more so of German loss exposure to the rest of the Eurozone. This is true even under plausible assumptions about a comprehensive break-up scenario that leaves Germany as the only member of the euro...
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Comparisons of economic performance over space and time largely depend on how statistical evidence from national accounts and historical estimates are spliced. To allow for changes in relative prices, GDP benchmark years in national accounts are periodically replaced with new and more recent...
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