An Empirical Study of Industry-Level Capital Investments in New Zealand (WP 14/04)

Abstract

I extend the Glick and Rogoff (1995) aggregate time-series, empirical, intertemporal model of country-investment (and the current account) to a sectoral-level, and estimate it for New Zealand. I fit the model to panel data of eleven industries from 1988-2009. The sectoral-level investment growth is a function of lagged investment level, sector-specific TFP shocks, country-specific TFP shocks, and global TFP shocks. The estimates seem robust to government spending shocks and Terms of Trade shocks..

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Ellen Shields, Peter Gardiner, Nicholas Warmke, Mario DiMaio, Grant Scobie, Gerald Minnee, Michael Ryan, Dimitri Margaritis and Enzo Cassino for their contributions to this paper. I also thank Steven Stillman for his advice on panel data estimation.

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