This paper outlines a detailed evaluation of intangible assets within the company, now more and more important and fundamental. It focuses on these resources through the use of direct valuation methods (scored card, Tobin's Q ratio, VAIC, interbrand, technology brokers), historical cost,...

This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...

"Empirical evidence suggests that the higher-order effects of natural disasters, which affect intangible assets, may be even more important than the material inter-industry effects. However, most existing general equilibrium models ignore higher order effects concerning human capital. Moreover,...