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UK Regional Plant and Machinery Capital Stocks and Premature Scrapping

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HARRIS R. I. D. (1997) UK regional plant and machinery capital stocks and premature scrapping, Reg. Studies 31, 737-750. Historically, a lack of capital stock data has severely limited the ability to carry out supply side analyses of the British regional economy. Hence, the present paper extends an earlier study to produce UK regional plant and machinery capital stocks for the 1968-91 period. In doing so, it is necessary to take account of premature scrapping, especially during the period after 1977. This was achieved using industry by region data on plant closures which provides a reasonable approximation that is much more reliable than when using figures obtained from interpolating the trend output-capital ratio. This paper also considers the importance of differing industrial structures on the composition and growth of regional manufacturing capital stock, together with why it is important to adjust capital stocks for utilization when estimating supply side relationships based on UK regional data. HARRIS R. I. D. (1997) Le capital social regional en installations industrielles et machines au Royaume-Uni et le demantelement premature, Reg. Studies 31, 737-750. D'un point de vue historique, un manque de donnees sur le capital social a serieusement limite la capacite d'analyser l'economie de l'offre regionale en Grande-Bretagne. Par consequent, cet article cherche a elargir une etude anterieure afin d'estimer le capital social regional en installations industrielles et machines au Royaume-Uni de 1968 a 1991. Il est donc necessaire de tenir compte du demantelement premature, surtout depuis 1977. On l'a fait a partir des donnees regionales industrielles sur les fermetures d'usines, ce qui fournit une estimation convenable qui s'avere beaucoup plus fiable que les chiffres obtenus en interpolant la tendance du rapport output-capital. Cet article cherche aussi a considerer l'importance des differentes structures industrielles pour ce qui est de la composition et de la croissance du capital social regional de l'industrie, conjointement avec les raisons pour lesquelles il importe d'ajuster le capital social disponible quand on estime les rapports de l'offre fondes sur des donnees regionales relatives au Royaume-Uni. HARRIS R. I. D. (1997) Regionale Fabrikanlagen- und Maschinenkapitalbesta¨nde im Vereinigten Ko¨nigreich und ihre vorzeitige Stillegung, Reg. Studies 31, 737-750. Historisch betrachtet hat der Mangel an Daten fu¨r Kapitalbesta¨nde der Fa¨higkeit, Analysen der Angebotsseite der britischen Regionalwirtschaft zu erstellen, starke Beschra¨nkungen auferlegt. Daher weitet der vorliegende Aufsatz eine fru¨here Untersuchung aus, un regionale Industrieanlagen- und Machinekapitalbesta¨nde fu¨r den Zeitraum 1968-1991 aufzustellen. Dabei ist es no¨tig, vorzeitige Stillegungen mit in Betracht zu ziehen, besonders im Zeitraum nach 1977. Dies wurde mittels regionaler, nach Industrien geordneter Angaben u¨ber Anlagenstillegung erreicht, welche einen passablen Anna¨herungswert ergeben, der weitaus zuverla¨ssiger ist als die Benutzung von Zahlen, die durch Einfu¨gung des vorherrschenden Verha¨ltnisses von Ertrag und Kapital erzielt wird. Der Aufsatz bescha¨ftigt sich auch mit der Bedeutung unterschiedlicher Industiestrukturen auf Grund von Zusammensetzung und Wachstum regionaler Industriekapitalbesta¨nde im Zusammenhang mit der Frage, warum es so wichtig ist, Kapitalbesta¨nde der Nutzanwendung anzupassen, wenn Beziehungen der Angebotsseite auf der Grundlage regionaler Daten im Vereinigten Ko¨nigreich gescha¨tzt werden.

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  • Richard Harris, 1997. "UK Regional Plant and Machinery Capital Stocks and Premature Scrapping," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(8), pages 737-750.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:31:y:1997:i:8:p:737-750
    DOI: 10.1080/713693392
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    1. Konstantinos A Melachroinos & Nigel Spence, 2014. "The Impact of Intangible Assets on Regional Productivity Disparities in Great Britain," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 46(3), pages 629-648, March.

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