New Issues in the Theory of Investment

Modernization and Persistence Effects

Marcel Savioz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XVI, 216 Seiten

1992 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-54979-6 (ISBN)

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The investment good market, together with the consumer good market, the money market and the labour market, are indeed the most extensively studied markets. The exhaustive survey of investment theory by Eisner and Strotz, already quoted four hundred references in 1963, although this work advocating for adjustment costs, was in fact only carried out at the very beginning of modern investment theory! This chapter gives an introduction of the extensive field and is an attempt to present some key ideas of investment theory. 1) We show that modern investment theory is the integration of many traditional approaches. The content of the chapter is set as follows. Section 2 presents an illustrative model of investment theory. Section 3, using this model, describes the investment decision of the firm. Sections 4 to 10 each present a "classical" investment hypothesis within the framework of the model. Section 11 concludes. For convenience, the key to the symbols used is given in Table 1. 2. The Model of the Firm Investment theory was born with the claim of Keynes (1936) that besides the capital demand (demand for a stock of capital at a point in time), an investment demand (demand for the increment of the capital stock in a period 1) Recent surveys are: Abel (1988), Coen and Eisner (1987) Artus and Muet (1984). The book on investment theory by Nickell (1978) is outstanding.

Investment Theory: An Integrative Framework.- 1. The Main Problem of Investment Theory.- 2. The Main Approaches to Investment Theory.- 3. An Integrative Framework.- Ageing of Capital Stock and Fiscal Policy.- 1. Description of the Model.- 2. Predictions of the Model.- Persistence of Extensive Growth.- 1. Description of the Model.- 2. Predictions of the Model.- I Investment Theory: An Integrative Framework.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Model of the Firm.- 3. The Investment Decision of the Firm.- 4. Tobin's "Q - Investment Demand".- 5. Treadway's "Optimal Accelerator".- 6. Lucas's "Optimal Investment with Rational Expectations".- 7. Keynes's "Marginal Efficiency of Capital".- 8. Jorgenson's "Neoclassical Investment Demand".- 9. Kydland and Prescott's "Time to Build".- 10. Arrow's "Irreversibility of Investment".- 11. Conclusions.- II Ageing of the Capital Stock: A Long Run Side-Effect of Expansive Fiscal Policy.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Model of the Firm.- 3. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions.- 4. Predictions of the Model.- 5. Fiscal Policy and Age of the Capital Stock.- 6. Conclusions.- III Persistence of Extensive Growth: A Growth Model of the Soviet Economy.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Model of the Central Planning Economy.- 3. Necessary Conditions.- 4. The Growth-Process.- 5. The Growth Process of the Soviet Union.- 6. Conclusions.- References.- Appendices.- Appendices to Chapter I.- Appendix 1.- Appendix 2.- Appendix 3.- Appendix 4.- Appendix 5.- Appendix 6.- Appendices to Chapter II.- Appendix 1.- Appendix 2.- Appendix 3.- Appendix 4.- Appendix 5.- Appendices to Chapter III.- Appendix 1.- Appendix 2.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.1.1992
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Contemporary Economics
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 216 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 242 mm
Gewicht	411 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
Schlagworte	Investitionen • Investitionstheorie • Investments • investment theory • Macroeconomics • Makroökonomie • Production • Stagnation
ISBN-10	3-540-54979-X / 354054979X
ISBN-13	978-3-540-54979-6 / 9783540549796
Zustand	Neuware