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Nearly 75 years ago, John Hicks introduced and formalized the concept of the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour and its relation to derived demand. The resulting formula has proven very useful in understanding the derived demand for productive factors, the distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263932
Nearly 75 years ago, John Hicks introduced and formalized the concept of the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour and its relation to derived demand. The resulting formula has proven very useful in understanding the derived demand for productive factors, the distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766148
Nearly 75 years ago, John Hicks introduced and formalized the concept of the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour and its relation to derived demand. The resulting formula has proven very useful in understanding the derived demand for productive factors, the distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779812
business fixed investment? The case of Japan is particularly interesting because of the dramatic movements in the Japanese … these questions. Fist, we examine financing and investment patterns to gauge firms' reactions to the 1980s stock market run … investment. Third, we use a linear projection to decompose stock market prices into fundamental and bubble components, allowing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823257
firms in making their investment decisions.We use a revealed preference approach that relies on the pattern of investment … spending – combined with investment theory – to estimate the discount rates used by managers. The standard story predicts that … firms with high stock prices and good investment opportunities should have discount rates that do not differ systematically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150640
When investment is irreversible, theory suggests that firms will be "reluctant to invest." This reluctance creates a … wedge between the discount rate guiding investment decisions and the standard Jorgensonian user cost (adjusted for risk). We …
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Is real investment fully determined by fundamentals or is it sometimes affected by stock market misvaluation? We … introduce three new tests that: measure the reaction of investment to sales shocks for firms that may be overvalued; use Fama … misvaluation into standard investment equations to estimate the quantitative effect of misvaluation on investment. Overall, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294043
firms in making their investment decisions. We use a revealed preference approach that relies on the pattern of investment … spending - combined with investment theory - to estimate the discount rates used by managers. The standard story predicts that … firms with high stock prices and good investment opportunities should have discount rates that do not differ systematically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274896
business fixed investment? The case of Japan is particularly interesting because of the dramatic movements in the Japanese … these questions. Fist, we examine financing and investment patterns to gauge firms' reactions to the 1980s stock market run … investment. Third, we use a linear projection to decompose stock market prices into fundamental and bubble components, allowing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291062
business fixed investment? The case of Japan is particularly interesting because of the dramatic movements in the Japanese … these questions. First, we examine financing and investment patterns to gauge firms' reactions to the 1980s stock market run … investment. Third, we use the linear projection to decompose stock market prices into fundamental and bubble components, allowing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004961532