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Investment : theories and analysis / M.C. Baddeley ; foreword by G.C. Harcourt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003Description: xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0333915690
  • 9780333915691
  • 0333915704
  • 9780333915707
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.43 21
LOC classification:
  • HG4521 .B3428 2003
Contents:
Foreword / G. C. Harcourt -- Pt. I. Overview -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An overview of concepts and approaches -- Pt. II. Theoretical Issues -- 3. Intellectual ancestors: Irving Fisher and Maynard Keynes -- 4. Accelerator theory -- 5. Jorgenson's model of investment -- 6. The limitations of Jorgenson's model -- 7. Putty-clay models of investment -- 8. Adjustment costs and q theory -- 9. Uncertainty and investment -- 10. Post Keynesian analyses of investment -- Pt. III. Testing the Theories -- 11. Comparing Jorgenson's model and accelerator theory: evidence from the UK -- 12. Uncertainty in competing models of investment: evidence from the USA -- Pt. IV. Empirical Applications of Investment Principles -- 13. Computing investment in the New Economy: US evidence -- 14. Investment and development: a cross-sectional analysis -- 15. Residential investment: bubbles and crashes in the UK housing market, 1980-99 -- Pt. V. Conclusion -- 16. Concluding remarks -- Statistical appendix: some basic econometric techniques.
Summary: "Investment provides an examination of the key macroeconomic theories which underpin fixed asset investment. It would make ideal reading for an intermediate level macroeconomics course or a module on fixed asset investment taking an applied macroeconomic perspective."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index.

Foreword / G. C. Harcourt -- Pt. I. Overview -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An overview of concepts and approaches -- Pt. II. Theoretical Issues -- 3. Intellectual ancestors: Irving Fisher and Maynard Keynes -- 4. Accelerator theory -- 5. Jorgenson's model of investment -- 6. The limitations of Jorgenson's model -- 7. Putty-clay models of investment -- 8. Adjustment costs and q theory -- 9. Uncertainty and investment -- 10. Post Keynesian analyses of investment -- Pt. III. Testing the Theories -- 11. Comparing Jorgenson's model and accelerator theory: evidence from the UK -- 12. Uncertainty in competing models of investment: evidence from the USA -- Pt. IV. Empirical Applications of Investment Principles -- 13. Computing investment in the New Economy: US evidence -- 14. Investment and development: a cross-sectional analysis -- 15. Residential investment: bubbles and crashes in the UK housing market, 1980-99 -- Pt. V. Conclusion -- 16. Concluding remarks -- Statistical appendix: some basic econometric techniques.

"Investment provides an examination of the key macroeconomic theories which underpin fixed asset investment. It would make ideal reading for an intermediate level macroeconomics course or a module on fixed asset investment taking an applied macroeconomic perspective."--Publisher description.

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