the US. Their work suggests private sector expenditure (investment) on intangibles is about 13% (11%) of US GDP 1998 … around £116bn (10% of GDP) which is about equal to UK investment in tangible assets. Of the £127bn expenditure, (in …-2000, with intangible investment about equal to tangible capital investment. Our work, using a similar method, suggests the UK …

with an increase in the share of the top percentile group. Likewise, a fall in the marginal tax rate on investment income …

appears unaffected: investment rates are flat, and productivity has slowed down. We investigate whether measurement issues … as intermediate consumption. Thus they do not count as either GDP or investment. We ask how treating such spending as … investment affects some key macro variables, namely, market sector gross value added (MGVA), business investment, capital and …

financing and buyouts by private equity investors on investment of portfolio firms in the UK and France - two countries with … higher investment levels and a lower dependence on internal funds after expansion financing. Buyouts financed by venture … capital companies are neither associated with a decrease in investment spending nor with an increase in the dependence on …