Adjustment Costs, Irreversibility and Investment Patterns in African Manufacturing /

This paper examines dynamic patterns of investment in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe, assessing the consistency of those patterns with different adjustment cost structures. Using survey data on manufactured firms, we document the importance of zero investment episodes and lumpy investme...

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Главный автор: Bigsten, Arne
Формат: Журнал
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
Серии:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/099
Online-ссылка:Full text available on IMF