On the nature of capital adjustment costs

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 611-633

  Cooper, Russell W ^a   Haltiwanger, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY;

EID: 33745841282     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2006.00389.x     Document Type: Article

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