From: Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM
Date: Sat Dec 25 2004 - 12:43:48 EST
Michael P, While doing a (unsuccessful, for reasons you suggested previously) search for data on replacement investment over the course of the cycle, I did find a few related papers which you and others might be interested in if you are not already aware of them: A couple of recent (August, 2004 and 2003 respectively) papers, written from a mainstream perspective, on this subject: -- "Irreversible Investment with Embodied Technological Progress" www.gate.cnrs.fr/t2m2005/Textes%20des%20communications%5CC39.pdf -- "Optimal Scrapping and Technology Adoption Under Uncertainty" http://www.realoptions.org/papers2004/RocheTA.pdf A 2002 paper written from a Post-Keynesian perspective, which deals with related issues: -- "Investment and Innovation in Capitalist Economies 1870-2000: Kaleckian Dynamics and Evolutionary Life Cycles" by Jerry Courvisanos and Bart Verspagen: www.utas.edu.au/economics/Library/discussion_papers/papers_02/2002-06.pdf *** btw, happy holidays to all! *** In solidarity, Jerry
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