TY  - JOUR
AU  - Atkeson,Andrew
AU  - Kehoe,Patrick J.
TI  - Measuring Organization Capital
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 8722
PY  - 2002
Y2  - January 2002
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8722
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8722.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Andrew Atkeson
Bunche Hall 9381
Department of Economics
UCLA
Box 951477
Los Angeles, CA  90095-1477
Tel: 866/312-9770
Fax: 310/825-9528
E-Mail: andy@atkeson.net

Patrick Kehoe
Research Department
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
90 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN  55480-0291
Tel: 612/204-5525
Fax: 612/204-5515
E-Mail: pkehoe@res.mpls.frb.fed.us
AB  - In the manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy, nearly 9% of output is not accounted for as payments to either physical capital or labor. The value of this output is a little larger than the value of the stock of physical capital. We build a model to measure how much of this output can be attributed to payments to organization capital-organization-specific knowledge that is built up with experience. We find that roughly 4% of output can be accounted for as payments to organization capital and that this capital has roughly two-thirds the value of the stock of physical capital.
ER  -