TY - BOOK ID - 6851927 TI - New issues in the theory of investment : modernization and persistence effects PY - 1992 SN - 354054979X 3642846912 9783540549796 PB - Berlin Springer DB - UniCat KW - Capital investments KW - Econometric models KW - Soviet Union KW - Economic conditions KW - Finance KW - Business & Economics KW - Financial Management & Planning KW - AA / International- internationaal KW - 305.8 KW - 339.312.0 KW - Econometrie van de investeringen, het gedrag van de onderneming. KW - Investeringen: algemeenheden. KW - Capital expenditures KW - Capital improvements KW - Capital spending KW - Fixed asset expenditures KW - Plant and equipment investments KW - Plant investments KW - Investments KW - Econometrie van de investeringen, het gedrag van de onderneming KW - Investeringen: algemeenheden KW - Советский Союз KW - Ber. ha-M. KW - Zwia̦zek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich KW - Szovjetunió KW - TSRS KW - Tarybų Socialistinių Respublikų Sąjunga KW - SRSR KW - Soi︠u︡z Radi︠a︡nsʹkykh Sot︠s︡ialistychnykh Respublik KW - SSSR KW - Soi︠u︡z Sovetskikh Sot︠s︡ialisticheskikh Respublik KW - UdSSR KW - Shūravī KW - Ittiḥād-i Jamāhīr-i Ishtirākīyah-i Shūrāʼīyah KW - Russia (1923- U.S.S.R.) KW - Sovetskiy Soyuz KW - Soyuz SSR KW - Sovetskiĭ Soi︠u︡z KW - Soi︠u︡z SSR KW - Uni Sovjet KW - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics KW - USSR KW - SSṚM KW - Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Ṛespublikaneri Miutʻyun KW - SSHM KW - Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Hanrapetutʻyunneri Miutʻyun KW - URSS KW - Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas KW - Berit ha-Moʻatsot KW - Rusyah KW - Ittiḥād al-Sūfiyītī KW - Rusiyah KW - Rusland KW - Soṿet-Rusland KW - Uni Soviet KW - Union soviétique KW - Zȯvlȯlt Kholboot Uls KW - Związek Radziecki KW - ESSD KW - Sahaphāp Sōwīat KW - KhSHM KW - SSR Kavširi KW - Russland KW - SNTL KW - PSRS KW - Su-lien KW - Sobhieṭ Ẏuniẏana KW - FSSR KW - Unione Sovietica KW - Ittiḥād-i Shūravī KW - Soviyat Yūniyan KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - Econometric models. KW - Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich KW - ZSRR KW - Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Sowieckich KW - ZSRS KW - Capital investments - Soviet Union - Econometric models KW - Capital investments - Econometric models KW - Soviet Union - Economic conditions - 1985-1991 - Econometric models UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6851927 AB - The investment good market, together with the consumer good market, the money market and the labour market, are indeed the most extensively studied markets. The exhaustive survey of investment theory by Eisner and Strotz, already quoted four hundred references in 1963, although this work advocating for adjustment costs, was in fact only carried out at the very beginning of modern investment theory! This chapter gives an introduction of the extensive field and is an attempt to present some key ideas of investment theory. 1) We show that modern investment theory is the integration of many traditional approaches. The content of the chapter is set as follows. Section 2 presents an illustrative model of investment theory. Section 3, using this model, describes the investment decision of the firm. Sections 4 to 10 each present a "classical" investment hypothesis within the framework of the model. Section 11 concludes. For convenience, the key to the symbols used is given in Table 1. 2. The Model of the Firm Investment theory was born with the claim of Keynes (1936) that besides the capital demand (demand for a stock of capital at a point in time), an investment demand (demand for the increment of the capital stock in a period 1) Recent surveys are: Abel (1988), Coen and Eisner (1987) Artus and Muet (1984). The book on investment theory by Nickell (1978) is outstanding. ER -