The Recent Behavior of Business Fixed Investment in the United States and the Role of Computers.

In the 1980s, U.S. real investment in high technology equipment has grown rapidly while other components of business fixed investment have been weak. The surge in real high technology investment has been accompanied by a very sharp decline in its relative price, leading to difficult index number pro...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1989.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1989/097
Online Access:Full text available on IMF