Investments in Intangible Assets and Australia's Productivity Growth
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This paper by Paula Barnes and Andrew McClure was released on 26 March 2009.
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 265 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Preface, Abbreviations and explanations - Overview - including key points (PDF - 235 Kb)
- Chapter 1 Background (PDF - 146 Kb)
1.1 Definition of intangibles
1.2 Objectives and scope of the paper
1.3 The rest of the paper - Chapter 2 Methodology (PDF - 209 Kb)
2.1 Previous studies
2.2 Model
2.3 Classification of intangibles - Chapter 3 Measurement of investment in intangibles (PDF - 261 Kb)
3.1 Nominal expenditure series
3.2 How much of expenditure is investment
3.3 Deflators
3.4 Real investment series - Chapter 4 Services from intangible capital (PDF - 251 Kb)
4.1 Intangible capital stocks
4.2 Capital services - Chapter 5 Growth accounting results (PDF - 260 Kb)
5.1 Growth accounting components
5.2 Growth accounting results - Chapter 6 International comparisons (PDF - 327 Kb)
6.1 Intangible investment as a share of output
6.2 Growth accounting results compared
6.3 Summary - Appendix A Data sources for investment in intangibles (PDF - 333 Kb)
- Appendix B Specification of model (PDF - 161 Kb)
- Appendix C Growth accounting (PDF - 200 Kb)
- Appendix D Sensitivity testing (PDF - 251 Kb)
- References (PDF - 183 Kb)
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