1971
DOI: 10.2307/1925715
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The Substitution of Capital for Capital

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“…As discussed in an early literature by Feldstein and Rotschild (1974) and Feldstein and Foot (1971), constant depreciation with differing rates across goods can create "lumpiness" in investment and "echoes" of past investment in future decisions. Boddy and Gort (1971) noted early that there is evidence of capital heterogeneity across sectors and more recent work by Goolsbee and Gross (1997) has demonstrated how important capital heterogeneity for the study of investment at the micro level.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As discussed in an early literature by Feldstein and Rotschild (1974) and Feldstein and Foot (1971), constant depreciation with differing rates across goods can create "lumpiness" in investment and "echoes" of past investment in future decisions. Boddy and Gort (1971) noted early that there is evidence of capital heterogeneity across sectors and more recent work by Goolsbee and Gross (1997) has demonstrated how important capital heterogeneity for the study of investment at the micro level.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…manufacturing 1929-1968. In contrast Boddy and Gort (1971) rejected the hypothesis of equipment-structures separability. Labour and equipment are substitutes in all studies reported in Table 6.…”
Section: Comparison With Other Modelsmentioning
confidence: 86%
“…Empirical support for this expec tation has been provided by R. Body and M. Gort, who report that the proportion of equipment relative to the proportion of structures in total investment tends to decline in expansions and increase in contractions [3].…”
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confidence: 95%