Is investment time irreversible? Some empirical evidence for disaggregated UK manufacturing data

Applied Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 2265-2275

  Speight, Alan E H ^a   Thompson, Piers ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; CAPITAL FLOW; CAPITAL FORMATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INVESTMENT; MANUFACTURING; MODELING; NONLINEARITY; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33749658795     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500427551     Document Type: Article

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