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英文文献：Behavior of business investment in the USA under variable and proportional rates of replacement
英文文献作者：George C. Bitros,M. Ishaq Nadiri
英文文献摘要：
Using data from the U. S. Bureau of Economic Analysis for the period 1947-2015, we test two investment models of neoclassical decent. Model A is based on the conceptualization that business firms have an active replacement investment policy, which renders the replacement rate d a determinant of business investment behavior r, whereas Model B is based on the traditional hypothesis that replacement investment is an engineering proportion of the capital stock, thus turning d into a constant. The evidence that emerges from the estimations is heavily in favor of Model A on at least three grounds. Namely, first it establishes that the replacement rate is a decisive determinant of in - vestment at all levels of aggregation; Second, it leads to estimates of investment equations with succinct short run and long run dynamics, thus facilitating policy applications; and thirdly, it gives rise to remarkably robust estimates of the elasticities of substitution of capital for labor, output and the replacement rate. When Model B is estimated for the period 1947-1960, it performs as expected, most likely because in short periods d remains fairly constant due to long swings in re placement investment.
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