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The Stock of Intangible Capital in Canada
Belhocine, Nazim - 2009
This paper measures the size of the stock of intangible capital in Canada using newly released data on the market value of all securities in the economy. The approach taken relies on a quantitative application of the q-theory of investment to generate the quantity of capital owned by firms. I...
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Treating Intangible Inputs as Investment Goods
Belhocine, Nazim - 2009
result is in line with similar findings for the U.S. and the U.K. Furthermore, the growth in GDP and labor productivity may …
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Japan’s Quest for Growth; Exploring the Role of Capital and innovation
Syed, Murtaza H.; Lee, Jinsook - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
As labor input in Japan shrinks with population aging, capital accumulation and productivity gains will drive growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777031
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Caribbean growth in an international perspective : the role of tourism and size
Thacker, Nita; Acevedo, Sebastian; Perrelli, Roberto - 2012
is explained more by a decline in productivity rather than a lack of investment. Second, tourism has been a significant … contributor to higher growth (through both capital accumulation and productivity) and lower output volatility, and in man …
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Japan out of the lost decade : divine wind or firms’ effort?
Ogawa, Kazuo; Saito, Mika; Tokutsu, Ichiro - 2012
supply factors such as productivity gains, materialized after long-fought restructuring efforts during the lost decade …
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The Missing Link Between Financial Constraints and Productivity
Moreno Badia, Marialuz - 2009
-level productivity, focusing on the case of Estonia. We contribute to the literature in two important respects: (i) we look explicitly at …
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Cointegrated TFP Processes and International Business Cycles
Tuesta, Vicente - 2009
A puzzle in international macroeconomics is that observed real exchange rates are highly volatile. Standard international real business cycle (IRBC) models cannot reproduce this fact. We show that TFP processes for the U.S. and the ""rest of the world,"" is characterized by a vector error...
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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Raise Productivity Growth?
Prasad, Eswar - 2008
productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that includes various measures of productivity and financial openness for a …
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Financial Shocks and TFP Growth
Severo, Tiago - 2010
The paper investigates how changes in industries' funding costs affect total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677536
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Does Technological Diffusion Explain Australia's Productivity Performance?
Tressel, Thierry - 2008
-factor productivity (MFP) in a panel of industries in 15 OECD countries over the period 1980 to 2003, with a special focus on Australia … productivity best practices over the past 16 years, and have benefited from the diffusion of Information and Communication …
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