Bhaduri and Marglin (1990) had argued that an investment function which has the profit rate and the capacity utilization rates as the two determinants of investment imposes unwarranted restrictions on the macroeconomic model and rules out profit-led expansion. In this paper, I show that this...

This study is the first empirical analysis to investigate the relationship between the investment behaviour of firms resident in Germany and the empirically determined marginal tax rates developed by John R. Graham. It is based on the Bundesbank's corporate balance sheet statistics for the...

Tobin's Q is the most common measurement of firm value and performance. However, estimating Tobin's Q accurately is not easy. Researchers have used book values of debts or assets rather than the market values. We estimate Tobin's Q for listed firms in Korea from 1980 to 2005 based on replacement...