Transformation in Production Technology and the Dynamics of Corporate Investment

Capital expenditures of U.S. public firms, relative to total assets, decrease by more than half from 1980 to 2016. The decline is pervasive across industries and firms of different characteristics, and cannot be explained by the usual determinants of investment and many other seemingly plausible reasons.

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