Treating Intangible Inputs as Investment Goods : The Impact on Canadian GDP /

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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Autor principal: Belhocine, Nazim
Formato: Revista
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Colección:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/240
Acceso en línea:Full text available on IMF