Hofman, André A.Ducoing Ruiz, Cristián2025-01-142025-01-142015-10-06Hofman, A. A., Ducoing, C. (2012) Capital goods imports, machinery investment and economic development in the long run: the case of Chile. In Yáñez, C., Carreras A. (Eds.), The Economies of Latin America: New Cliometric Data (pp. 119-130). Pickering&Chatto. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315655048.978-1-84893-323-110.4324/9781315655048https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/52924Introduction Studies about machinery equipment investment have a long tradition in economics and economic history. Since the analysis of the Industrial Revolution and the growth studies of the twentieth century, there are indications that economic growth of countries has a strong nexus with investment in capital formation and speci cally, with the machinery equipment investment. However, in the case of developing countries there is a lack of quantitative studies in the long run about the relationship between growth and machinery equipment investment.application/pdfeng© 2015 Taylor & Francis. César Yáñez and Albert Carreras. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.Machinery equipment investmentEconomic growthCapital formation in developing countriesChileinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart2025-01-14info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess