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A Method for Improved Capital Measurement by Combining Accounts and Firm Investment Data
Raknerud, Arvid; Rønningen, Dag; Skjerpen, Terje - 2007
We propose a new method for estimating capital stocks at the firm level by combining business accounts information and investment data. The method also produces capital estimates at the sector or industry level by summing individual firms' capital stocks and appropriately inflating this sum to...
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Expected service lives and depreciation profiles for capital assets. Evidence based on a survey of Norwegian firms
Skjerpen, Terje; Barth, Nina; Cappelen, Ådne; Todsen, … - 2016
In the Norwegian national accounts, as in many other countries, it is quite common to use information on depreciation … different types of capital assets and their assessments of the most realistic depreciation profiles. For some capital categories … depreciation profiles, and carry out an econometric analysis for two types of capital where second-hand markets exist, Machinery …
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Measuring and Decomposing Capital Stock and Service Values: Should Capital Quality be given a Place?
Biørn, Erik - 2007
Aggregation of tangible capital assets across vintages and decomposition of value aggregates into quantities and prices are considered. Focus is on both capital stock values and capital service values. If the definitions and ways of measuring prices and quantities are not conformable, a third...
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Programa minha casa minha vida: Avaliações de aderência ao déficit habitacional e de acesso a oportunidades urbanas
Krause, Cleandro; Nadalin, Vanessa Gapriotti; Pereira, … - 2023
This article is a contribution of the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada - Ipea) to the evaluation of the My House My Life Program (Minha Casa Minha Vida - PMCMV) carried out within the scope of the Public Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Council...
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A Covid deixa sequelas: A destruição do estoque de capital das micro e pequenas empresas como consequência da pandemia de Covid-19
Nogueira, Mauro Oddo; De Farias Costa Moreira, Rafael - 2023
The covid-19 pandemic has been devastating for small businesses, being responsible for an abrupt fall in demand, interruption of economic activities, and, in many cases, bankruptcy of numerous enterprises. Data from Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) indicate that, until June...
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Production Constraints and the NAIRU
Driver, Ciaran F.; Hall, Stephen G. - 2007
This paper argues that the production constraints in the basic NAIRU model should be distinguished by type: capital constraints and labour constraints. It notes the failure to incorporate this phenomenon in standard macro models. Using panel data for UK manufacturing over eighty quarters it is...
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Production Constraints and the NAIRU
Hall, Stephen G.; Driver, Ciaran F. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-11, pp. 1-15
This paper argues that the production constraints in the basic NAIRU model should be distinguished by type: capital constraints and labour constraints. It notes the failure to incorporate this phenomenon in standard macro models. Using panel data for UK manufacturing over 80 quarters we show...
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Financial investment constraints: A panel threshold application to German firm level data
Tarassow, Artur - 2015
This article tests the hypothesis that financial supply-side shifts help to explain the low-investment climate of private firms in Germany. The core contention is that a firm's financial position contributes to its access to external finance on credit markets. Special emphasis is put on small...
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German economy needs to invest more in knowledge capital
Belitz, Heike; Gornig, Martin - In: DIW Weekly Report 9 (2019) 31, pp. 247-253
The efficiency of the German economy is powered by its knowledge-intensive industrial and services sectors. Yet the use of knowledge capital to drive innovation and productivity in Germany is rather low compared to other European countries and the United States. Germany is clearly lagging...
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Deutsche Wirtschaft muss mehr in ihr Wissenskapital investieren
Belitz, Heike; Gornig, Martin - In: DIW Wochenbericht 86 (2019) 31, pp. 527-534
Die Leistungsfähigkeit der deutschen Wirtschaft beruht auf ihren wissensintensiven Industrie- und Dienstleistungsunternehmen. Dennoch ist der Einsatz von Wissenskapital als wichtiger Treiber von Innovationen und Produktivität in Deutschland im Vergleich zu anderen europäischen Ländern und...
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