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Previous issue date: 2018-04-27 / Using firm-level data from an administrative Brazilian dataset, I document a few stylized facts regarding capital stock accumulation patterns and investment decisions. Finding evidence largely in favor of micro-level lumpiness of investment as it was found for American firms, I document that there are a few particularities in the behavior of Brazilian firms. First, I document that the distribution of the growth rate of capital is more dispersed, with “fatter” tails. Second, I also show that, as economic activity, the volume of investment and capital stock are more concentrated on a small number of firms, micro-level lumpiness might have a bigger role in understanding aggregate movements. Third, I show that the observable characteristics of Brazilian firms explain a lot more of sudden movements in capital growth when compared to the U.S., after controlling for industry specific characteristics and other variables. Fourth and last, I compute statistical measures related to the investment rate distribution, which show that investment at the firm-level seems to be even “lumpier” in Brazil, with firms investing less on average, while experiencing more episodes of investment spikes and periods of inaction.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:bibliotecadigital.fgv.br:10438/24314 |
| Date | 27 April 2018 |
| Creators | Camêlo, Felipe Diogo |
| Contributors | Santos, Cézar Augusto Ramos, Leite Courseil, Carlos Henrique, Escolas::EPGE, FGV, Iachan, Felipe Saraiva |
| Source Sets | IBICT Brazilian ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
| Source | reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, instname:Fundação Getulio Vargas, instacron:FGV |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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