Imported capital goods, which embody skill-complementary technologies, can increase the supply of skills in developing countries. Focusing on China and using a shift-share design, we show that city-level capital goods import growth increases the local skill share and that both skill acquisition...

This paper revisits capital-skill complementarity and inequality, as in Krusell, Ohanian, Rios-Rull and Violante (KORV, 2000). Using their methodology, we study how well the KORV model accounts for more recent data, including the large changes in labor’s share of income that were not present...

This paper studies how the real interest rate affects the (mis)allocation of capital in a small open economy characterised by asymmetric information in the financial market. Low interest rates accompanied by low entrepreneurial wealth allow unprofitable firms to enter the pool of borrowers. This...

Imported capital goods, which embody skill-complementary technologies, can increase the supply of skills in developing countries. Focusing on China and using a shift-share design, we show that city-level capital goods import growth increases the local skill share and that both skill acquisition...

Seit geraumer Zeit lassen die Produktivitätszuwächse in den fortgeschrittenen Volkswirtschaften nach. Dies überrascht insofern, als große und breit angelegte technologische Impulse infolge der digitalen Revolution erwartet werden. Eine Analyse für Deutschland weist zunächst auf deutlich...

Trotz der breit angelegten Digitalisierung sind die Produktivitätsfortschritte in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren erheblich niedriger als in den vorhergehenden Dekaden. Eine Wachstumszerlegung weist auf stark nachlassende Impulse des Technischen Fortschritts und vor allem der Kapitalbildung...

This paper empirically verifies that the types of capital adjustment costs serve as an important mechanism in relation to investment decision- making after confirming that the investment dispersion of Korean firms is pro-cyclical and can affect busin ess cycles. Specifically, it is found through...

Trotz der breit angelegten Digitalisierung sind die Produktivitätsfortschritte in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren erheblich niedriger als in den vorhergehenden Dekaden. Eine Wachstumszerlegung weist auf stark nachlassende Impulse des Technischen Fortschritts und vor allem der Kapitalbildung...

Seit geraumer Zeit lassen die Produktivitätszuwächse in den fortgeschrittenen Volkswirtschaften nach. Dies überrascht insofern, als große und breit angelegte technologische Impulse infolge der digitalen Revolution erwartet werden. Eine Analyse für Deutschland weist zunächst auf deutlich...

El artículo se propone darle continuidad a las propuestas teóricas hechas en dos artículos anteriores, en los que se sostuvo la existencia de una relación entre el proceso de acumulación, la inequidad en la distribución del ingreso nacional entre los factores de la producción, y por tanto...

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term capitalism refers to: “The possession of capital or wealth; an economic system in which private capital or wealth is used in the production or distribution of goods and prices are determined mainly in a free market; the dominance of private...

This work is an analysis of the Economocracy and Representative Economocracy. A reformed economic system is required for the transformation of global grown debt to sustainable levels. The challenge to avoid economic worldwide deadlock yields the emerging need for economocracy as a premium...

I estimate CES aggregate production functions for the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, and Spain using data from the EU KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual property (IP) capital, and traditional capital. I assume...

I estimate CES aggregate production functions for the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, and Spain using data from the EU KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual property (IP) capital, and traditional capital. I assume...

Die weltweit anstehende sozial-ökologische Transformation wird für die Industrienation Deutschland weitreichende Konsequenzen haben. Vertreter von Post Growth-Ansätzen empfehlen für die unmittelbare Zukunft einen Übergang zu Null-Wachstum. Wir analysieren drei verschiedene...

We characterize efficiency in an equilibrium model of investment and capital reallocation with heterogeneous firms facing collateral constraints. The model features two types of pecuniary externalities: collateral externalities, because the resale price of capital affects collateral constraints,...

This lecture focuses on the costs of public debt when safe interest rates are low. I develop four arguments.First, I show that the current U.S. situation in which safe interest rates are expected to remain below growth rates for a long time, is more the historical norm than the exception. If the...

With capital‐skill complementarity, the secular decline in the price of capital equipment due to equipment‐specific technological progress (ESTP) keeps pushing up the demand for skilled relative to unskilled labor and raising the skill premium. This paper quantitatively characterizes the...

I estimate CES aggregate production functions for the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, and Spain using data from the EU KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual property (IP) capital, and traditional capital. I assume...

Die weltweit anstehende sozial-ökologische Transformation wird für die Industrienation Deutschland weitreichende Konsequenzen haben. Vertreter von Post Growth-Ansätzen empfehlen für die unmittelbare Zukunft einen Übergang zu Null-Wachstum. Wir analysieren drei verschiedene...

Die Interpretation des Zinssatzes als Preis ist problematisch. Im Gegensatz zum Preis ist der Zinssatz kein Austauschverhältnis. Modelle, in denen der Zinssatz mit einem Preis für die Nutzung von Kapital identifiziert werden kann, sind sehr speziell. In allgemeineren Modellen sind Zinssatz und...

Aggregate reallocation is procyclical. This empirical observation is puzzling given the documented fact that the benefits to reallocation are countercyclical. I show that this procyclicality is entirely driven by reallocation of bundled capital, which is highly correlated with market valuation...

The paper revisits Harper, Berndt and Wood (1989) and calculates Canadian reproducible capital services aggregates under alternative assumptions about the form of depreciation, the opportunity cost of capital and the treatment of capital gains. Five different models of depreciation are...

This paper studies the nature of capital adjustment at the plant-level. We use an indirect inference procedure to estimate the structural parameters of a rich specification of capital adjustment costs. In effect, the parameters are optimally chosen to reproduce the nonlinear relationship between...

The elasticity of substitution between capital and labor features prominently in several areas of economic research. However, a consensus estimate remains elusive. We develop an estimation strategy that filters panel data in an original way and avoids several pitfalls - difficult-to-specify...

This paper presents a new model of endogenous wage and capital dispersion where heterogeneity is driven by entrepreneurial incentives to pay higher wages in order to attract and retain workers. The main contribution of this model is to provide a framework with microeconomic foundations that give...

Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification - this is also the approach used by numerous studies analyzing the relative capital-skill...

This paper uses nonparametric kernel methods to construct observation-specific elasticities of substitution for a balanced panel of 73 developed and developing countries to examine the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis. The exercise shows some support for capital-skill complementarity,...

n 1998, Colombia entered a severe recession. GDP contracted by 4.2% in 1999, and the unemployment rate surpassed 20%. Political turmoil exacerbated trade and fiscal imbalances. The economic downturn led to credit contractions, particularly in the mortgage market. The nonperforming loan (NPL)...

We introduce permanently-shifting income shares into a standard growth model with two types of agents. Capital owners represent the top quintile of U.S. households while workers represent the remainder. Our tractable model allows us to exactly replicate the observed U.S. time paths of the top...

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct...

We revisit the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis and examine whether and under what conditions this mechanism can explain the developments in wage inequality and labor share in the 1963–2016 period. Krusell, Ohanian, Ríos-Rull, and Violante (2000) show that a model with capital-skill...

This paper studies optimal taxation of entrepreneurial capital with private information and multiple assets. Entrepreneurial activity is subject to a dynamic moral hazard problem and entrepreneurs face idiosyncratic capital risk. We first characterize the optimal allocation subject to the...

We compare Laffer curves for labor and capital taxation for the US, the EU-14 and individual European countries, using a neoclassical growth model featuring "constant Frisch elasticity" (CFE) preferences. We provide new tax rate data. The US can increase tax revenues by 30% by raising labor...

Die Interpretation des Zinssatzes als Preis ist problematisch. Im Gegensatz zum Preis ist der Zinssatz kein Austauschverhältnis. Modelle, in denen der Zinssatz mit einem Preis für die Nutzung von Kapital identifiziert werden kann, sind sehr speziell. In allgemeineren Modellen sind Zinssatz und...

We revisit the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis and examine whether and under what conditions this mechanism can explain the developments in wage inequality and labor share in the 1963–2016 period. Krusell, Ohanian, Rios-Rull, and Violante (2000) show that a model with capital-skill...

We characterize efficiency in an equilibrium model of investment and capital reallocation with heterogeneous firms facing collateral constraints. The model features two types of pecuniary externalities: collateral externalities, because the resale price of capital affects collateral constraints,...

This Research Paper contains a detailed documentation of the dynamic computable general equilibrium model PuMA. The model is used for analysing economic, labour market and public finance effects of different policy options, structural changes and other important policy questions. PuMA is similar...

What are the economic determinants of a firm's market value? We answer this question through the lens of a generalized neoclassical model of investment with physical capital, quasi-fixed labor, and two types of intangible capital, knowledge and brand capital as inputs. We estimate the structural...