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The causes of Japan's 'lost decade': The role of household consumption
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2006
stagnation of investment, especially private fixed investment, was the primary culprit. I then investigate the causes of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332277
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How Much does Sweden Invest in Intangible Assets?
Edquist, Harald - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320236
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Can Investment in Intangibles Explain the Swedish Productivity Boom in the 1990s?
Edquist, Harald - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320348
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The economic impact of telecommunications diffusion on UK productivity growth
Correa, Lisa - 2003
This paper investigates the relationship between telecommunications infrastructure competition, investment and …, amongst other things, emanated from encouraging infrastructure investment, in their production processes. Thus the analysis … demonstrates that U.K. government policies on telecommunications and its investment incentives may have wide-reaching consequences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284184
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Stand und Perspektiven der "New Economy" in ausgewählten Mitgliedstaaten der EU aus deutscher Sicht
Vieweg, Hans-Günther; Fuchs, Thomas; Hild, Reinhard; … - 2005
Die vorliegende Studie wurde im ifo Arbeitsbereich Branchenforschung erstellt und im Frühjahr 2005 abgeschlossen. Auftraggeber war das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit. Gegenstand der Studie sind der Stand und die Perspektiven der „New Economy“ in Deutschland sowie ein Vergleich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698333
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The "V-Factor": distribution, timing and correlates of the great Indian growth turnaround
Ghate, Chetan; Wright, Stephen - 2009
Following Bai (2004) and Bai and Ng (2004) we estimate a common factor representation of a panel of output series for India, disaggregated by 15 states and 14 broad industry groups. We find that a single common V-Factor accounts for a large part of the significant shift in the cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274009
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Entrepreneurship and economic growth: An investigation into the relationship between entrpreneurship and total factor productivity growth in the EU
Dabkowski, Andrzej P. - 2011
. Business Birth Rate, Self-employment Rate, Business Investment and Labour Productivity Growth were all found to be highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430860
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New economy in growth and development
Pohjola, Matti - 2002
ICT investment and economic growth in the period 1985-99 for a sample of 42 countries for which ICT spending data are … infrastructure, like education and skills, in order to reap the benefits from ICT investment. Technology by itself is not a solution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279209
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A Romerian Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth
Sağlam, Bahar Bayraktar; Yetkiner, I. Hakan - 2012
Mankiw Romer and Weil (1992) made the Solovian set up widely-used to test the determinants of economic growth and the speed of convergence. Subsequently, in almost all convergence studies, an exogenously growing technology is assumed and this component is treated as part of the constant term. In...
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Defense Spending and Economic Growth:A Theoretical Manifestation for Empirical Studies
Yetkiner, I. Hakan - 2012
Defense literature is still in need of a theoretical framework in the neoclassical sense, in regard to empirical research on the relationship between defense spending and economic growth. In this respect, Dunne, Smith and Willenbockel (2005), although not without technical problems, represented...
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