Investment and especially in older documents also investment
Generally, the conversion of money into assets, i.e. any kind of financial investment. – Money used for the – construction, – expansion or – improvement of tangible assets that serve to generate future income (= fixed assets, physical capital, real capital, capital stock). – The result of investment in the sense of , i.e. the increase to the stock of physical capital in a period. – In terms of budgetary law (with regard to budgetary law) in Germany – the acquisition of tangible assets (buildings, equipment), – financial assets (purchases of equity interests, loans), – investment grants to the private and public sectors, and – the utilization of public-sector guarantees. – As a stock size, also said of money that has been converted into assets, such as insurance capital investments. – See investment risk, loans, disinvestment, income aspiration, expectations, unreasonable, commitment, financial investment, financial investment, commercial capital, investment capital, capital, capital intensity, capital ratio, capital stock, head-in-the-sand behavior, stock investment, leasing business, portfolio investment, technology boom, asset investment, tenfold, polygon, magic, interest rate, interest allocation function, interest burden ratio, interest responsiveness, interest prohibition. – See the definitions and the stock and growth measures under the heading “Financial and nonfinancial accounts,” subheading “Annual saving, investment and financing,” and the heading “Prices, output, demand and labor markets,” subheading “Use of gross domestic product” in the “Euro area statistics” part of the respective ECB Monthly Bulletin. For the composition of investment in the euro area, see the ECB’s Monthly Bulletin of September 2002, pp. 46 ff., ECB Monthly Bulletin of July 2003, pp. 45 ff, ECB Monthly Report of April 2005, p. 74 (comparability of statistics), Deutsche Bundesbank Monthly Report of April 2005, p. 28 ff (critique of the concept of investment as defined below), Deutsche Bundesbank Monthly Report of January 2007, p. 17 ff (investment induced by technological progress and location competition, with overviews), ECB Monthly Report of April 2008, p, 65 ff (determinants of investment in the euro area; overviews), ECB Monthly Report of September 2008, pp. 58 ff. (internal financing of corporations since 2003; overviews), Deutsche Bundesbank Monthly Report of November 2009, p. 63 (investment motives in Germany since 1991), Deutsche Bundesbank Annual Report 2013, p. 56 ff. (corporate investment broken down since 1991; overview), BaFin Annual Report 2013, p. 134 f. (capital investments of insurance companies broken down several times).
Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent!
University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec.
Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol.
E-mail address: info@ekrah.com
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk
https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/
https://www.gerhardmerk.de/