The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of attention recently, yet empirical analyses of public capital productivity have generally been limited to the official capital stock estimates available in a small sample of countries. Alternatively, many researchers have investigated the output effects of public investment—recognizing that investment may be a poo...

The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of attention recently, yet empirical analyses of public capital productivity have generally been limited to the official capital stock estimates available in a small sample of countries. Alternatively, many researchers have investigated the output effects of public investment—recognizing that investment may be a poo...

We prove an existence theorem for a stationary perfect foresight equilibrium under borrowing constraints in a two-sector model with infinitely lived heterogeneous agents. The most patient agent holds all the capital in this solution. We also show that if the capital goods sector is capital intensive and capital income is increasing in the aggregate capital stock, then the aggregate capital stoc...

Literature in capital theory takes it for granted that the capital stock is quasi-…xed and always fully utilized and that net investment to the capital stock is the main source of variation in capital input. This study integrates varying capacity utilization into capital investment models with irreversibility under uncertainty. The result shows that the capacity utilization rate varies as uncer...

In the year that capital-poor countries open their stock markets to foreign investors, the growth rate of their typical firm’s capital stock exceeds its pre-liberalization mean by 4.1 percentage points. In each of the next three years the average growth rate of the capital stock for the 369 firms in the sample exceeds its pre-liberalization mean by 6.1 percentage points. However, there is no ev...

This paper constructs China’s capital stock, which is used in conjunction with a labor variable to estimate a Cobb-Douglas production function for the Chinese economy. Two panels of data are used – one for capital formation and one for sources of investment finance. Both national and provincial data are used for these two panels, thus giving a total of four capital-stock series. The Cobb-Dougla...

Capital Control Stock markets become larger, more liquid, more integrated Liberalization and Stock internationally, and more volatile after controls on capital and dividend flowas are liberalized. And countries that Ross Levine officially establish Sara Zervos internationally accepted accounting standards and laws to protect investors do not have substantially be..erfunctioning stock markets th...

When the shares are issued, that can be explained as an issuance of shares at their fair value or a stock split or the combination of both. Stock dividends can be considered as a combination of capitalization of retained earnings and stock split (stock split theory). But, it can also be explained by using fictitious transaction such as payment of cash dividend and subsequent issuance of shares ...

It is common to assume in business cycle analysis that the capital stock is homogenous and constant in aggregate value. We explore the alternative concept that capital is heterogeneous, and whether it exhibits cyclical changes. A multiperiod model of investment implies that acquisition of specific components of capital responds to changes in relative interest rates, and we further show that the...