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Price Changes, Maintenance, and the Rate of Depreciation
Randy A. Nelson,
Randy A. Nelson
Michael R. Caputo
Received: March 17 1994
Accepted: September 01 1995
© 1997 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Review of Economics and Statistics (1997) 79 (3): 422–430.
https://doi.org/10.1162/003465300556832
Randy A. Nelson, Michael R. Caputo; Price Changes, Maintenance, and the Rate of Depreciation. The Review of Economics and Statistics 1997; 79 (3): 422–430. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/003465300556832
This study estimates rates of deterioration and depreciation for a sample of used privately owned single- and twin-engine aircraft over the period 1971–1991. The adoption of a strict liability standard in the 1970s lead to a 775% increase in liability expenses for the manufacturers of private planes between 1977 and 1985, resulting in sharp increases in the prices of new and used planes throughout the late 1970s and 1980s. This period of rapid price inflation coincides with a decrease in the depreciation rates for used single- and twin-engine aircraft after 1975. In addition, our results indicate that the rate of deterioration is positively related to the required cost of engine maintenance. These findings call into question the commonly invoked assumption that depreciation rates may be treated as exogenously determined constants, and lend support to the hypothesis that deterioration and depreciation rates respond systematically to key economic variables.
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