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CAPITAL-OUTPUT RATIO [6 records]

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Record 1 2004-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
DEF

Ratio of the change in capital investment(net of gross investment minus capital consumption allowances) to the change in output.

CONT

If a certain industry adds $2.5 million net to its capital equipment and its yearly output increases by $1 million then its ICOR is 2.5:1.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión presupuestaria y financiera
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Record 2 2002-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Planning
  • Production (Economics)
DEF

The ratio of the amount of capital to the amount of output produced by that capital.

Key term(s)
  • output-capital ratio
  • ratio of output to capital

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planification économique
  • Production (Économie)
DEF

Rapport entre le stock de capital fixe et la production.

OBS

[Ce ratio vise] à exprimer une relation structurelle technique entre l'ensemble des moyens de production et le volume de la production que leur utilisation permet d'obtenir.

Key term(s)
  • rapport capital-production
  • coefficient capital-production
  • ratio de productivité du capital
  • rapport capital-rendement
  • rapport capital-extrant

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Planificación económica
  • Producción (Economía)
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Record 3 1999-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión presupuestaria y financiera
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Record 4 1996-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
Key term(s)
  • incremental fixed capital output ratio

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur

Spanish

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Record 5 1981-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Laws of the Market (Economy)
OBS

The Ricardo-Marx-Solou model of smooth substitutability of labor for capital(i. e., of labor for a great variety of alternatively producible capital goods) has less need to work with Harrod-Domar concepts than those models which regard the capital-output ratio as a hard constant(...) it is useful to interpret the Harrod-Domar concepts for a neoclassical model like Fig. 37-2 [p. 721](...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lois du marché (Économie)

Spanish

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Record 6 1981-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Saving and Consumption
OBS

(...) [Schumpeter's] general theory does not specifically call for constant relative shares, a trendless profit rate, a constant capital-output ratio, or a trendless average propensity-to-consume-and-save, still all or any of these could be quite consistent with his general schema.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Épargne et consommation

Spanish

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