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标题：Analysing the Structure of German Investments – The Ifo Investment Database
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作者：Thomas Strobel, Stefan Sauer ; Klaus Wohlrabe
期刊名称：CESifo Forum
印刷版ISSN：1615-245X
出版年度：2013
卷号：14
期号：1
页码：64-68
出版社：Ifo Institute for Economic Research
摘要：Investments are an important driver of economic growth and productivity. In turn both macroeconomic variables are essential to obtain a sustainable level of prosperity. In Germany, investment patterns have not been constant over time. Structural changes in sectoral investment patterns can be noticed in the years since the reunification in 1991. In the course of these changes the importance of some sectors for aggregate output growth has shifted. Thus, for example, there was a shift in the importance of the secondary and tertiary sector, but also of individual sectors within the manufacturing sector (German Federal Statistical Office 2012). Besides inter-sectoral changes in investment activity, intra-sectoral changes occurred as well. As of the 1970s leasing in particular, as well as other types of renting, rapidly gained importance in the financing of investment equipment in the former German Federal Republic (Gersten - berger et al. 1984