DYNAMICS BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS: AN AGGREGATE AND SECTORAL PERSPECTIVEIntangiblecapital;physicalcapital;dynamics;renovation;conversion.
Thisstudyaimstoempiricallytestanalternativeviewonthedynamicsbetweenphysicaland intangiblecapital,proposedbyLustosa(2017)andwithrootsinaneconomicaccounting system.Forthispurpose,threehypothesesweretested.Thefirststates,inacounterintuitive view,thatcompaniesthatdonothavegoodwillhaveamarketreturn,onaverage,higherthan thosethatengageinthistypeofoperation.Thesecond,thattherenewalforcescanceloutthe conversionforces,sothat,onaverage,thereisnosignificantassociationbetweentheratesof variationofphysicalandintangiblecapital.Thethirdhypothesisproposesthattherenewalrate ofintangiblecapitalishigherformoreinnovativesectorswithgreaterfutureprospects.The econometricmodelsmade it possible to empirically test this alternativevisionand corroboratedtheoutlinedhypotheses,inordertogenerateimpactsindifferentareas,suchas academia,standardizationandthecapitalmarket.Theimportanceofbeingopentochanging conceptionsrootedishighlighted,withoutwhichprogressinaccountingtheorywouldnotbe possible.