Working Paper n°2016-01 – The investment-profit nexus in an era of financialisation and globalisation. A marxist perspective. – Cédric Durand (CEPN) et Maxime Gueuder (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)

Working Paper n°2016-01

THE INVESTMENT-PROFIT NEXUS IN AN ERA OF FINANCIALISATION AND GLOBALISATION.
A marxist perspective.

Cédric Durand
Centre d’Économie Paris Nord (CEPN), CNRS & University Paris 13
cdurand@ehess.fr

Maxime Gueuder
Aix-Marseille University (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), CNRS & EHESS,
maxime.gueuder@univ-amu.fr

April 2016

Abstract
During the past decades, the link between profits and domestic investment weakened in the biggest high-income economies. This contribution explores this relaxation of the profits-investment nexus in a Marxist profit-centred perspective. Focusing on the impact of the origins and the uses of profits, we study the investment behaviour of non-financial corporations in relation to their profits at the macro level since 1980, a period marked by financialisation and globalisation.
We contrast three competing hypotheses – the Revenge of the Rentiers, the Financial-turn of Accumulation and Globalisation – and test them through a macro panel data analysis for France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United-Kingdom and United States over the period 1980-2012.

Key words
Profits – Investment – Financialisation – Globalisation – Macro-panel analysis

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