Arbeitspapier
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
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Hannover Economic Papers (HEP) ; No. 574
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
- Thema
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capital productivity
cost of capital
interest-growth-differential
WACC
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Knolle, Julia
Lehmann, Kai
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
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Hannover
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2016
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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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