Investments in Intangible Assets and Australia's Productivity Growth: Sectoral Estimates

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This paper by Paula Barnes was released on 14 October 2010.

Preliminaries (PDF - 259 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Preface, Abbreviations and explanations
Overview - including key points (PDF - 243 Kb)
Chapter 1 Introduction (PDF - 150 Kb)
1.1 Definition and classification of intangibles
1.2 Objectives and scope of the paper
1.3 The rest of the paper
Chapter 2 Measures of intangible assets (PDF - 261 Kb)
2.1 Measurement of intangibles
2.2 Current intangible investment
2.3 Growth in intangible investment
2.4 Intangible capital stocks
2.5 Intangible capital services
2.6 Effect on the rate of return on capital
Chapter 3 Sectoral growth accounting results (PDF - 256 Kb)
3.1 Model
3.2 Growth accounting components
3.3 Growth accounting results
Chapter 4 International comparisons (PDF - 281 Kb)
4.1 Intangible investment as a share of output
4.2 Growth accounting results compared
Appendix A Data sources and methodology for sectoral estimates of intangibles (PDF - 262 Kb)
Appendix B Growth accounting model with intangibles (PDF - 240 Kb)
Appendix C Sensitivity testing (PDF - 229 Kb)
References (PDF - 176 Kb)

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