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How do firms adjust production factors to the cycle?

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  • Cette Gilbert

    (Banque de France, Université Aix-Marseille (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), CNRS et EHESS, Paris, France)

  • Lecat Rémy

    () (Banque de France – 39, rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs – 75001, Paris, France)

  • Ahmed Jiddou Ahmed Ould

    (Banque de France and ENSAE, Paris, France)

Abstract

This paper studies the adjustment of production factors to the cycle taking into account factor utilization in multiple dimensions (labor working time, capital operating time and capital capacity utilization) and examines the impact of obstacles to increasing capital operating time on this adjustment path. Factor utilization adjusts the most rapidly, first through capital capacity utilization and capital operating time and then labor working time. The adjustment is slow for the number of employees and even slower for the capital stock. Obstacles to increasing capital operating time lead to a slower adjustment of capital operating time, offset by a stronger adjustment of capacity utilization.

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  • Cette Gilbert & Lecat Rémy & Ahmed Jiddou Ahmed Ould, 2016. "How do firms adjust production factors to the cycle?," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, De Gruyter, vol. 16(2), pages 361-394, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:bejmac:v:16:y:2016:i:2:p:361-394:n:1
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    1. Gilbert Cette & Nicolas Dromel & Rémy Lecat & Anne-Charlotte Paret, 2015. "Production Factor Returns: The Role of Factor Utilization," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 97(1), pages 134-143, March.
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    1. Gilbert Cette & Rémy Lecat & Ahmed Ould Ahmed Jiddou, 2016. "Margin rate and the cycle: the role of trade openness," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(37), pages 3569-3575, August.
    2. Chouard, V. & Minier, A. & Tarrieu, S. & Baudry, L. & Soual, A., 2015. "La progression modérée de la durée d’utilisation des équipements se poursuit en 2014 - Résultats de l’enquête menée par la Banque de France," Bulletin de la Banque de France, Banque de France, issue 199, pages 43-52.

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    JEL classification:

    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
    • O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth

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