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Fixed Capital Adjustment: Is Latin America Different? Evidence from the Colombian and Mexican Manufacturing Sectors

Overview This paper examines capital adjustment patterns using two large and largely novel data sets form the manufacturing sectors of Colombia and Mexico. The findings show that investment patterns in these countries resemble those reported for the United States to a surprising extent. Capital adjustments beyond maintenance investment occur only rarely, but large spikes account for a significant fraction of total investment. Although duration models do not provide strong evidence for the presence of substantial fixed costs, nonparametrical adjustment function estimates reveal the presence of irreversibilities in investment. These irreversibilities are important for understanding aggregate investment behavior.

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Publisher	International Monetary Fund	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	April 1999
Format	White Papers
Topics	Economic Modeling

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