Corporate investment for 1979: a forecast

Abstract

Investment in 1979. Corporate investment is taken to include gross capital expenditures of all companies including joint sector companies. Government companies alone are excluded. This study also provides a picture of investment behaviour in 1978. The methodology applied in this paper to forecast corporate investment relies on the data available with the term lending institutions on the phasing of capital expenditures of projects sanctioned by them. These may be regarded as a kind of anticipatory data for forecasting. This study shows that investment in the Private Corporate sector in 1978 rose by six per cent over the level attained in 1977. However, the present indications are that corporate investment in 1979 may not exceed the level achieved in 1978.