IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijepee/v7y2014i1p35-54.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A revisit to the incremental capital-output ratio: the case of Asian economies and Thailand

Author

Listed:
  • Hiroyuki Taguchi
  • Suphannada Lowhachai

Abstract

This paper aims to examine the trend in the incremental capital-output ratio (ICOR) and its relationship with per capita GDP and GDP growth rate by utilising the panel data of a number of Asian economies and the historical time-series data of Thailand. It might be significant to know the linkage between growth and investment through the ICOR level, since Asian economies have faced serious needs for heavy investments to attain a targeted growth. The panel-data analysis confirmed that the gross ICOR had a positive correlation with per capita GDP and a negative association with GDP growth rate as expected in a theoretical model. The time-series analysis verified that the net ICOR was positively correlated with per capita GDP. Both analyses showed that industrial shares did not affect the level of the gross and net ICORs.

Suggested Citation

  • Hiroyuki Taguchi & Suphannada Lowhachai, 2014. "A revisit to the incremental capital-output ratio: the case of Asian economies and Thailand," International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(1), pages 35-54.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijepee:v:7:y:2014:i:1:p:35-54
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=59891
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sakib Bin Amin & Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary & Foqoruddin Al Kabir & Farhan Khan, 2023. "Nexus between energy intensity and capital-output ratio: A holistic approach," Energy & Environment, , vol. 34(7), pages 2721-2739, November.
    2. Dieppe, Alistair & Gilhooly, Robert & Han, Jenny & Korhonen, Iikka & Lodge, David, 2018. "The transition of China to sustainable growth – implications for the global economy and the euro area," Occasional Paper Series 206, European Central Bank.
    3. Damir Cosic & Sudyumna Dahal & Markus Kitzmuller, 2017. "Climbing Higher," World Bank Publications - Reports 27283, The World Bank Group.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijepee:v:7:y:2014:i:1:p:35-54. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=219 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.