How Important Is Technology Capital for the United States?

Marek Kapicka

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, vol. 4, issue 2, 218-48

Abstract: I construct measures of technology capital and country openness for the US economy and the rest of the world for 1982-2007. The key identifying assumption is that firms equalize returns on tangible and technology capital. For the US economy, technology capital is about one-third of tangible capital, and the degree of openness is between 0.61 and 0.70. I provide both a two-country estimation and a multicountry estimation, and find that the US estimates are almost identical in both cases. The welfare loss from totally closing the US economy is small, but the welfare gain from totally opening the US economy is large. (JEL E22, F41, O30)

JEL-codes: E22 F41 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
Note: DOI: 10.1257/mac.4.2.218
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