This paper uses a new cross-country cross-industry dataset on investment in tangible and intangible assets for 18 … European countries and the US. We set out a framework for measuring intangible investment and capital stocks and their effect … on output, inputs and total factor productivity. The analysis provides evidence on the diffusion of intangible investment …

Investment statistics of the People's Republic of China are a source of many puzzles. Some investment data are of … dubious quality, while the particular concepts of investment and their changing definitions over time are often poorly … understood. Fixed asset investment, a remnant of the planned economy, comes with severe limitations in terms of data coverage and …

national accountants. I then examine the implications of treating intangible spending as an acquisition of final (investment …) goods on GDP growth for Canada. I find that investment in intangible capital by 2002 is almost as large as the investment in …. -- Intangible Capital Goods ; Intangible Investment …