Issues Related to Treating R&D as Investment In BEA's Regional Accounts (PDF)

This paper presents an analysis of regional issues related to treating R&D as an investment. It provides experimental estimates of the impact on gross domestic product by state of the new treatment of R&D. It also discusses several important conceptual and methodological issues pertaining to these estimates.

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G. Andrew Bernat, Jr.

JEL Code(s) O34 Published