01629cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF006104 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451873870 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Belhocine, Nazim. Treating Intangible Inputs as Investment Goods : The Impact on Canadian GDP / Nazim Belhocine. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009. 1 online resource (21 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students 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 2002 is almost as large as the investment in physical capital. This result is in line with similar findings for the U.S. and the U.K. Furthermore, the growth in GDP and labor productivity may be underestimated by as much as 0.1 percentage point per year during this same period. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/240 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2009/240/001.2009.issue-240-en.xml IMF e-Library