FrontMatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Overview -- 2 Intangible Assets in a Knowledge Economy -- 3 Macroeconomic Implications of Intangible Assets -- 4 Intangibles in the Firm and in Financial Markets -- 5 Intangibles and Government Measurement -- 6 Intangibles and Government Policy --...

"Jack Triplett and Barry Bosworth analyze services sector productivity, demonstrating that fundamental changes have taken place in this sector of the U.S. economy. They show that growth in the services industries fueled the post-1995 expansion in U.S. productivity and assess the role of...

"One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of standard data sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights) as a proxy for standard...