investment was 25 percent of value added in manufacturing, while the corresponding figure for the service sector was 11 percent … investment accounted for almost 30 percent of labor productivity growth in manufacturing. Thus, investments in intangibles that …

total investment in intangibles was 227 billion or approximately two-thirds of the total investment in fixed capital in 2004 …. Thus, investment in intangibles was considerable in 2004. The corresponding figures for the UK and the US were 10.9 and 13 …

recognizing that firms make substantial investment in intangible assets such as R&D, design, advertising etc. These investments … are not classified as investment in the National Accounts, where only tangible assets are defined as investment. This … paper provides estimates of investment in intangible assets and uses the growth accounting framework to analyze the Swedish …

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 …

's tax rate relative to other affiliates of the multinational group the higher is its level of intangible asset investment … dynamic intangible investment pattern. …

affiliates of the multinational group the higher is its level of intangible asset investment. This effect is statistically and … economically significant, even after controlling for subsidiary size and accounting for a dynamic intangible investment pattern. …

of market sector spillovers from intangible investment and from public R&D. We find (a) no evidence of spillover effects … from intangible investment at the market sector level, including from R&D, (b) strong evidence of market sector spillovers …

We argue that positive comovements between land prices and business investment are a driving force behind the broad … joint dynamics of land prices and business investment. …