Intangible Risk?

Measuring Capital in the New Economy, Carol Corrado, John Haltiwanger and Dan Sichel, editors, University of Chicago Press, 2005

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Lars Peter Hansen

University of Chicago - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

John Heaton

University of Chicago - Finance

Nan Li

Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Date Written: August 2005

Abstract

In this paper we reviewed two findings pertinent for using asset market data to make inferences about the intangible capital stock. We presented evidence familiar from the empirical finance literature that returns are heterogeneous when firms are grouped according to their ratio of market equity to book equity. This evidence suggests that there are important differences in the riskiness of investment in measured capital vis-à-vis intangible capital. This has potentially important ramifications for how to build explicit economic models to use in constructing measurements of the intangible capital stock.

Keywords: Intangible Risk, Value Premium, Adjustment Costs

JEL Classification: C11, E22, G12

Suggested Citation

Hansen, Lars Peter and Heaton, John C and Li, Nan, Intangible Risk? (August 2005). Measuring Capital in the New Economy, Carol Corrado, John Haltiwanger and Dan Sichel, editors, University of Chicago Press, 2005 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2369212

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