The Profit-Investment Nexus: Dynamics of Profitability, Capital Formation, and Distribution in Sweden and the UK, 1950-2016
With the present thesis I aim to explore what accounts for fluctuations in capital formation and profitability in Sweden and the UK since 1950. Do expectations rule investments which in turn determine profits, or is it rather profitability that rule expectations and thus investment behaviour? Applying a finite distributed-lag model on a variety of variables, profits emerge as a reliable key factor