This paper investigates the causes of the shortfall in private R&D expenditure of the EU compared to the US. It shows that differences in the structure of the two economies play only a minor role in explaining the R&D gap. Instead, the European R&D shortfall is mainly caused by a negative...

Auch Großbritannien blieb trotz stimulierender Wirtschaftspolitik 2001 nicht von einer konjunkturellen Abschwächung verschont, die Landung war aber sanfter als in vielen kontinentaleuropäischen Ländern. Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt ist dementsprechend mit fast 2 1/2% im EU-Vergleich...

The interest for household production has grown since the release of the new System of National Accounts in 2008. In this paper we analyse how accounting for own-use production may affect labour statistics. Traditional headcount ratios may not be very informative when employment rates consider...

This paper provides future researchers of economic structure with a model for building a social accounting matrix (SAM), that is, a unique countrywide database for use in structural analysis, and applies this model to the empirical investigation of the economic structure of Pakistan. Our...