Investment and uncertainty in machinery and real estate

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Autor(a) principal: Pereira,Rodrigo Mendes
Data de Publicação: 2008
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Economia (Online)
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71402008000300003
Resumo: Investment is usually treated as an homogeneous variable in the literature. The wide differences in the nature of inputs used in investment projects may lead to interesting insights that are not captured in the conventional approach. In this paper I decompose investment in machinery and industrial real estate and examine the impact of economic uncertainty on each of these components. Using panel data estimation methods for the Brazilian industry, I found that uncertainty exerts a harmful effect on both types of investment. However, the effect is much more intense with machines, which possibly is a consequence of their high reversibility costs.
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title Investment and uncertainty in machinery and real estate
spellingShingle Investment and uncertainty in machinery and real estate
Pereira,Rodrigo Mendes
Investment
uncertainty
GARCH
panel data
title_short Investment and uncertainty in machinery and real estate
title_full Investment and uncertainty in machinery and real estate
title_fullStr Investment and uncertainty in machinery and real estate
title_full_unstemmed Investment and uncertainty in machinery and real estate
title_sort Investment and uncertainty in machinery and real estate
author Pereira,Rodrigo Mendes
author_facet Pereira,Rodrigo Mendes
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Investment
uncertainty
GARCH
panel data
topic Investment
uncertainty
GARCH
panel data
description Investment is usually treated as an homogeneous variable in the literature. The wide differences in the nature of inputs used in investment projects may lead to interesting insights that are not captured in the conventional approach. In this paper I decompose investment in machinery and industrial real estate and examine the impact of economic uncertainty on each of these components. Using panel data estimation methods for the Brazilian industry, I found that uncertainty exerts a harmful effect on both types of investment. However, the effect is much more intense with machines, which possibly is a consequence of their high reversibility costs.
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