Intermediate inputs and economic productivity

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1986, 2013, Pages

  Baptist, Simon ^a   Hepburn, Cameron ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Intermediate inputs; Material efficiency; Material intensity; Productivity; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; MATERIALS;

DISAGGREGATION; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES; FURTHER WORKS; INTERMEDIATE INPUTS; MATERIAL EFFICIENCY; NATIONAL ACCOUNTS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PRODUCTION FUNCTION; RESOURCE PRICE; SUBSECTORS; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84874262442     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0565     Document Type: Article

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