Treating Intangible Inputs as Investment Goods.

Treating Intangible Inputs as Investment Goods.

This paper constructs a data set to document firms' expenditures on an identifiable list of intangible items and examines the implications of treating intangible spending as an acquisition of final (investment) goods on GDP growth for Canada. It finds that investment in intangible capital by 20...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Belhocine, Nazim
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Series:IMF Working Papers.
Subjects:
Gross domestic product > Canada > Econometric models.
Labor productivity > Canada > Econometric models.
Investments > Canada > Econometric models.
Gross domestic product > Econometric models
Investments > Econometric models
Labor productivity > Econometric models
Canada
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; I. Introduction; II. National Accounts' Conventions and the Rationale Against it; III. Data Collection Approach; IV. Data Sources; A. Computerized Information; 1. Software Investment (overall and by type); B. Innovative Property; C. Economic Competencies; V. Summary of Findings and Comparison with Other Countries; A. Findings for Canada; 1. Decomposition of Intangible Expenditures by Item; 2. Tangible Versus Intangible Investment; B. Comparison with the U.S. and the U.K; 2. Comparison of Expenditures in Intangibles Across U.S., U.K. and Canada.
  • VI. Impact of Including Intangibles on GDP3. Impact of Including Intangibles on Real GDP Growth; VII. Conclusion; References; Footnotes.

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