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Productive capital, uncertainties and profitability
[Capital productif, incertitudes et profitabilité]

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  • Edmond Malinvaud

    (INSEE - Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE))

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L'objet de l'article est donc d'étudier pourquoi et comment, dans une pespective à moyen terme, la profitabilité constitue l'un des déterminants fondamentaux de l'équipement en capital productif d'un pays. Cette étude vise à doter la théorie macroéconomique d'un des fondements qui semblent aujourd'hui lui manquer pour la discussion des problèmes de notre temps. Plus précisément, je me propose d'étudier de façon approfondie un modèle que j'estime approprié. Ce modèle traite des décisions d'une firme, donc uniquement d'un "équilibre partiel" et sans considération des effets que l'agrégation peut entraîner. Il repose aussi sur diverses autres simplifications. C'est pourquoi, après qu'il ait été étudié de près, les dernières sections de cet article seront consacrées à l'examen séparée de diverses complications. Cependant, une formalisation purement statique sera retenue tout au long de l'article (2). Le souci est évidemment de réduire la modélisation à ses éléments essentiels de façon à pouvoir pousser loin l'étude des propriétés de statique comparée qui jouent le rôle principal dans une perspective à moyen terme. On peut encore dire que l'objet de l'article réside dans la détermination du capital productif désiré. Une théorie complète de l'investissement suppose encore que soient précisés les déterminants de la vitesse d'adaptation du capital effectif au capital désiré. L'aisance du financement à chaque moment doit alors intervenir. Mais l'étude peut suivre une démarche familière qu'il est inutile de discuter ici.

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  • Edmond Malinvaud, 1986. "Productive capital, uncertainties and profitability [Capital productif, incertitudes et profitabilité]," Working Papers hal-01541929, HAL.
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