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 …

rate of return) exists for every project which maps depreciation classes into rates of return. The various shapes a rate of … from the (implicit or explicit) selection of different depreciation patterns. To single out the appropriate rate of return … for a project, auxiliary assumptions are needed regarding the project's capital depreciation. This involves value judgment …