While information technologies (IT) are credited with the recent acceleration in productivity in the United States …, many other industrial countries have not experienced a pickup in productivity growth. To explain this productivity … and slowed productivity growth in a number of industrial countries. We then develop a theoretical model with vintage …

a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU …This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits …-calculated factor share. These findings suggest investments in knowledge-based capital, i.e., intangible capital, produce productivity …