In the Norwegian national accounts, as in many other countries, it is quite common to use information on depreciation … different types of capital assets and their assessments of the most realistic depreciation profiles. For some capital categories … depreciation profiles, and carry out an econometric analysis for two types of capital where second-hand markets exist, Machinery …

under geometric depreciation. The data are plant-level panel data from the Norwegian manufacturing statistics, containing … consequences of choosing different depreciation rates a priori, when we use as benchmark for the level of the capital stocks … deflated fire insurance values in a specific year. The choice of depreciation rate is of substantial importance, some values …