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Strobel, Thomas; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - CESifo - 2013

In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in 50 German industries from 1991 onward. The data is consistent with national accounts statistics provided by the German Federal Statistical Office and is based on investments in...

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China's Investment Rate : Implications and Prospects

Holz, Carsten A. - 2017

it driven by investment and capital accumulation. By 2014, gross capital formation had reached 46 percent of aggregate …

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Physical Capital Estimates for China's Provinces, 1952-2015 and Beyond

Holz, Carsten A. - 2017

Capital estimates are widely used in economic growth and productivity studies, for profitability considerations and … wealth accounting exercises. Yet the calculation of “capital” frequently receives only cursory attention, despite the …:(i) calculates long-run provincial (and national) physical capital series for China, (ii) distinguishes between capital services and …

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The Ifo Investment Database

Strobel, Thomas - 2013

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The Marginal Product of Capital : A Persistent International Puzzle

Chirinko, Robert S. - 2008

Large and sustained differences in marginal products of capital (MPKs) across countries are sharply at odds with the … substantially affected by adjustment costs in the accumulation of capital. With the proper technology and a plausible … parameterization of adjustment costs, the MPK in poor countries is much higher than the MPK in rich countries. Why capital flows do not …

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Ordoliberalism, Pragmatism and the Eurozone Crisis : How the German Tradition Shaped Economic Policy in Europe

Feld, Lars P. - 2015

German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper analysis of ordoliberal thinking reveals that the...

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Has Creative Destruction Become More Destructive?

Komlos, John - CESifo - 2014

Schumpeter’s concept of creative destruction as the engine of capitalist development is well-known. However, that the destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP and on welfare is hardly acknowledged, with...

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The Structure of the American Economy

Eric O'N. Fisher; Marshall, Kathryn G. - CESifo - 2008

factors are mobile and another with capital specific to each sector in the economy. …

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Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing?

Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2010

Are natural resources a “curse” or a “blessing”? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a...

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Exchange Rate Misalingment Estimates - Sources of Differences

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Fujii, Eiji - CESifo - 2011

We study the differences of currency misalignment estimates obtained from alternative datasets derived from two International Comparison Program (ICP) surveys. A decomposition exercise reveals that the year 2005 misalignment estimates are substantially affected by the ICP price revision....

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