capital productivity in industrialised economies: evidence from error-correction model and lagrange multiplier tests
;Trofimov Ivan D.
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d.2017ekonomskicapital
Abstract
The paper re-examines the “stylized facts” of the balanced growth in
developed economies, looking specifically at capital productivity variable.
The economic data is obtained from European Commission AMECO database,
spanning 1961-2014 period. For a sample of 22 OECD economies, the paper
applies univariate LM unit root tests with one or two structural breaks, and
estimates error-correction and linear trend models with breaks. It is shown
that diverse statistical patterns were present across economies and overall
mixed evidence is provided as to the stability of capital productivity and
balanced growth in general. Specifically, both upward and downward trends in
capital productivity were present, while in several economies mean reversion
and random walk patterns were observed. The data and results were largely in
line with major theoretical explanations pertaining to capital productivity.
With regard to determinants of the capital productivity movements, the
structure of capital stock and the prices of capital goods were likely most
salient.