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Trade in Capital Goods
By
Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum
There are a couple of good recent papers that look at equipment pricesand growth or productivity
Greenwood, Hercowitz, and Krusell, 1997. "Long-Run Implications ofInvestment-Specific Technological Change". American Economic Review873, 342-362. Uses Gordon's (1982) quality-adjusted prices forequipment to measure technological progress in capital goods production.Includes this in a standard neoclassical model and finds that it islarge. Leads to a puzzle in that the productivity slowdown is even moresevere once this quality correction is made. Nice paper.
Restuccia and Urrutia, "Relative Prices and Investment Rates."http//www.chass.utoronto.ca/~diegor/research.html I think this paper iscoming out in the JME. It argues that differences in the relative priceof capital have strong explanatory power for differences in investmentrates and provides a model and calibration of this.
Jovanovic and Rob, "Solow versus Solow"http//www.econ.nyu.edu/user/jovanovi/Argues that a vintage capital model (Solow 1960) does a better job ofexplaining differences in income levels across countries than a Solow1956 model. Relative price of capital/equipment is used to measuredistortions to capital across countries.
Six Stylized Facts:Rich Countries are specialized in equipment production;
ºPoor countries import most of their equipment from only a FEW developed countries;
ºEquipment trade displayshome bias;
ºEquipment investment as a share of GDPhas no relation to income per capita;
ºThe relative price of equipment goods in terms of consumption goods decline with income per capita;
Stylized Facts
• A small group of R&D intensive countries are the most specialized in equipment production;
• Poor countries import much of their equipment, most of which comes from just a few large exporters;
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• Equipment is traded more than manufactures as whole, yet this trade displays home bias and other effects of geography;
• The price of equipment (relative to the price of consumption goods) declines dramatically over time, and with development, reflecting technological innovations.
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