Arbeitspapier

The price-quantity decomposition of capital values revisited: Framework and examples

The often discussed problems of aggregating tangible capital assets across vintages and of decomposing value aggregates into quantity and price aggregates are revisited. For stock values and service flow values, some new results are given, and illustrated by examples, along with reinterpretations of familiar ones. If the definitions and measurement methods for prices and quantities do not 'match', a third, 'quality', component may be needed. Should this 'buffer' component be included in the price or quantity components, or both, or should it be accounted for separately, and in the latter case, how does it depend on the interest rate and the capital's age? In discussing these issues, five related quantity variables and five related price variables are introduced and discussed. For certain parametric profiles for survival and efficiency loss they are equal. Some variables are observable from market data without large efforts, some are genuinely unobservable, and some can be quantified only if certain (sometimes questionable and often non-testable) assumptions are made. Examples based on three sets of parametric profiles, including exponential decay, are given.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Memorandum ; No. 27/2014

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Index Numbers and Aggregation; Leading indicators
Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data; Data Access
Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
Thema
Capital accounting
Capital survival
Capital service price
Capital and interest
Arbitrage
Capital quality
Aggregation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Biørn, Erik
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Oslo, Department of Economics
(wo)
Oslo
(wann)
2014

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Biørn, Erik
  • University of Oslo, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2014

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