Profitability, investment and capital productivity

DiMaria, charles-henri (2023): Profitability, investment and capital productivity.

Abstract

Capital accumulation is pivotal to produce goods and services. Common knowledge is that entrepreneurs invest because of potential profit. However, the various theoretical frameworks as well as empirical studies are not providing unequivocal evidence of direct causality between profit and investment decisions. In this document we use Granger symetric causality test as well as asymmetric causality test first proposed by (Hatemi-J, 2012). We examine possible causality between profit and investment, profit and unit labour cost and between investment and productivity.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Capital productivity, rate of profit, asymmetric causality test
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E22 - Investment ; Capital ; Intangible Capital ; Capacity; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity > O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence

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