STOCKCAPIT: Stata module to calculate physical capital stock by the perpetual-inventory method

Ibrahima Diallo

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: stockcapit calculates physical capital stock by the perpetual-inventory method using investvar (Investment variable) and gdpvar (GDP variable). The initial capital stock is computed as in Harberger (1978). See Nehru and Dhareshwar (1993) and King and Levine (1994) for more details concerning the measurement of initial capital stock. As pointed by Barro and Sala-i Martin (2004) the calculated capital stock for the first years depends on the initial guess of initial capital stock and hence is unreliable. But as initial capital depreciates, the computed stocks become more and more precise.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 10 and tsspell from SSC
Keywords: capital stock; perpetual inventory method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-04-14, Revised 2011-06-17
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install stockcapit". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/stockcapitdatatimes.dta data file (application/x-stata)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/stockcapitdatapand.dta data file (application/x-stata)

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