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Transition dynamics in vintage capital models: explaining the postwar catch-up of Germany and Japan

Gilchrist, Simon; Williams, John C. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2004

-up mechanism through capital accumulation where technology is embodied in new capital goods. Using a putty-clay model of production …

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Transition dynamics in vintage capital models: explaining the postwar catch-up of Germany and Japan

Gilchrist, Simon; Williams, John C. - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2004

-up mechanism through capital accumulation where technology is embodied in new capital goods. Using a putty-clay model of production …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702133

Putty-putty, two sector, vintage capital growth models

Berger, Brett D. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2001

Most growth models assume capital is homogeneous with regard to technology. This contradicts intuition and empirical … evidence that the majority of technology is embodied in the capital stock. Berger (2001) showed that neoclassical vintage … capital (embodied technology) and non-vintage capital (disembodied technology) models have different convergence rates …

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Measuring the rate of technological progress in structures

Gort, Michael; Greenwood, Jeremy; Rupert, Peter - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 1998

An effort to measure technological progress in structures by using panel data on the age and rents of buildings in a vintage capital model, where buildings are replaced at some chosen periodicity. It finds that there has been significant technological advance in structures, which accounts for a...

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Financial considerations of South African companies making capital investments abroad : a theoretical and empirical study

Conrad, Adeeb - 2011

Thesis (MComm (Business Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.

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Pandemic-Era Uncertainty

Meyer, Brent; Mihaylov, Emil; Barrero, Jose Maria; … - 2022

We examine several measures of uncertainty to make five points. First, equity market traders and executives at nonfinancial firms have shared similar assessments about one-year-ahead uncertainty since the pandemic struck. Both the one-year VIX and our survey-based measure of firm-level...

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South African asset classes : return and volatility relationship dynamics over time

Pask, Adriaan Eckhardt - 2008

This dissertation is based on the hypothesis that a third dimension, namely investmenttime horizon, can add value to the more conventional two-dimensional methodologyof assessing the relative risk and return attributes of various assets and portfolios inorder to enhance investment decisions.This...

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Project finance risk pricing decision : Australian evidence

Nguyen, Huyen T. - University of Western Sydney; College of Law and Business; … - 2002

This thesis presents empirical research into the project risk pricing decision undertaken by Australian project leaders for domestic project finance. It addresses questions about the relative importance of various project finance risks on the project risk pricing decision; the impact of risk...

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The influence of environmental social controls on the capital investment decision-making of the firm : Australian evidence

Wood, Dorothy - University of Western Sydney; College of Law and Business; … - 2002

Social controls influence the environmental performance of firms and require them to be more accountable for their environmental impacts. These controls include governmental interventions such as mandatory disclosure requirements, regulation and subsidisation, as well as less formal controls...

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Private equity and venture capital instruments, a study into their use and intention.

Thomson, Dean, Banking & Finance, Australian School of … - 2005

Moral Hazard and the Agency Costs thereof have long been accepted arguments in venture finance theory and have therefore long been accepted shortcomings in the venture capitalist / entrepreneur relationship. In psychological experiments ? including economic ? it has been shown that human beings...

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