Der auf den Geschäftslagebeurteilungen der Leasinggesellschaften basierende Investitionsindikator, den das ifo Institut und der Bundesverband Deutscher Leasing-Unternehmen gemeinsam ermitteln, signalisiert für das Jahr 2014 einen Anstieg der Ausrüstungsinvestitionen einschließlich der...

Recent studies on productivity growth show how competition affects innovation and TFP growth in OECD countries, but do not explicitly account for sectoral parameter heterogeneity. This paper examines whether competition and innovation have a direct effect on labor productivity growth in EU...

International specialization is a strong driver of sectoral productivity. This specialization is not only characterized by the diversity of final goods, but also by the variety of intermediate inputs. Thereby the importance of inputs is not only demonstrated by its large shares in gross output,...

In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in 50 German industries from 1991 onward. The data is consistent with national accounts statistics provided by the German Federal Statistical Office and is based on investments in...

Der auf den Geschäftslagebeurteilungen der Leasinggesellschaften basierende Investitionsindikator, den das ifo Institut und der Bundesverband Deutscher Leasing-Unternehmen gemeinsam ermitteln, signalisiert für das Jahr 2015 einen moderaten Anstieg der Ausrüstungsinvestitionen einschließlich...

Die ifo Investorenrechnung liefert jährliche Investitionsmatrizen, die Aufschluss über den Anteil einzelner Gütergruppen an den Investitionen eines Wirtschaftszweigs geben. Neben dem gängigen Eigentümerkonzept bietet zudem eine Darstellung von Investitionszeitreihen nach dem Nutzerkonzept,...

Theo S. Eicher and Thomas Strobel present an industry-level account of the recent changes in German productivity growth and compare the trends to Europe and the US. The specific focus is on how differential investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) affected the economic...

Over the last two decades EU countries experienced diverging productivity growthdevelopments. By examining the sources of EU countries growth drivers on the sectorallevel, the paper takes a new look on the influence of innovations. While standard neoclassicalNon-ICT capital deepening turns out...

US labor productivity in ICT-skill intensive industries experienced tremendousincreases in post–1995 trend growth compared to Germany, while other (non-ICT-skillintensive) industries showed similar growth trends in both countries. Examining thesource of industry productivity growth in German...