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Long-run Implications of the Brazilian Capital Stock and Income Estimates

Brazilian Review of Econometrics

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Title Long-run Implications of the Brazilian Capital Stock and Income Estimates
Long-run Implications of the Brazilian Capital Stock and Income Estimates
 
Creator Gomes, Victor; Universidade Católica de Brasília and Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Bugarin, Mirta N. S.; Department of Economics, Universidade de Brasília, Address: Campus Universitário ICC Norte, Brasília - DF, 70910-900
Ellery-Jr, Roberto; Department of Economics, Universidade de Brasília, Address: Campus Universitário ICC Norte, Brasília - DF, 70910-900
 
Subject Investment; Capital Accumulation; Functional Distribution of Income
E01; E22; E25
Investment; Capital Accumulation; Functional Distribution of Income
E01; E22; E25
 
Description The present study aims to analyze the empirical as well as theoretical implications related to the possible inconsistencies between the Brazilian capital stock estimate and its associated investment decision. The common practice of using the country’s accumulated (depreciated) fixed capital formation data as a proxy for the capital stock series generates a set of incompatible facts with dynamic models built on balanced growth and on aggregate production functions. Moreover, a related issue on the Brazilian capital income is considered in our analysis. According to the country’s National Accounts, the participation of capital income reaches about half of the aggregate income which is an unusual high share compared to international standards. It is shown that this problem can also be solved using alternative methods that lead to a more suitable capital stock series to be used in recursive equilibrium models. Finally, the long-run impacts of using the proposed capital stock series is studied using a modified basic growth model calibrated to reproduce some Brazilian empirical facts
The present study aims to analyze the empirical as well as theoretical implications related to the possible inconsistencies between the Brazilian capital stock estimate and its associated investment decision. The common practice of using the country’s accumulated (depreciated) fixed capital formation data as a proxy for the capital stock series generates a set of incompatible facts with dynamic models built on balanced growth and on aggregate production functions. Moreover, a related issue on the Brazilian capital income is considered in our analysis. According to the country’s National Accounts, the participation of capital income reaches about half of the aggregate income which is an unusual high share compared to international standards. It is shown that this problem can also be solved using alternative methods that lead to a more suitable capital stock series to be used in recursive equilibrium models. Finally, the long-run impacts of using the proposed capital stock series is studied using a modified basic growth model calibrated to reproduce some Brazilian empirical facts
 
Publisher Sociedade Brasileira de Econometria
 
Date 2005-05-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/bre/article/view/2672
10.12660/bre.v25n12005.2672
 
Source Brazilian Review of Econometrics; Vol 25, No 1 (2005); 67–88
Brazilian Review of Econometrics; Vol 25, No 1 (2005); 67–88
1980-2447
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/bre/article/view/2672/1623