BLOCH, Laurence; COEURÉ, Benoît - In: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique (1994) 36, pp. 133-167
Empirical studies of physical investment usually rely on Tobin's average q (the market value of the firm divided by the replacement cost of capital), rather than marginal q (the present value of a stream of expected marginal profits) because the latter is unobservable. We build marginal q series...