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An empirical assessment of global capital productivity

Does the world experience a secular decline in capital productivity? Due to the long-run downward trend in interest rates, some economists do think so. However, this reasoning equates capital productivity with interest, which is a critical assumption. This paper presents a new proxy that can be used to estimate capital productivity. It is based on weighted average cost of capital (WACC), which are employed by firms in their investment appraisals as a benchmark return. The paper uses an original WACC data set for many OECD countries and for the time period 2000-2015. Data are adjusted for tax distortions and expected inflation. The principle finding is that the data do not indicate a long-run decline in capital productivity.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Hannover Economic Papers (HEP) ; No. 574

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
Thema
capital productivity
cost of capital
interest-growth-differential
WACC

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Knolle, Julia
Lehmann, Kai
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
(wo)
Hannover
(wann)
2016

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Knolle, Julia
  • Lehmann, Kai
  • Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Entstanden

  • 2016

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