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firm level investment and high-frequency identified monetary policy shocks. We show that the reaction of firms' investment …
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We contrast how monetary policy affects intangible relative to tangible investment. We document that the stock prices … total investment in firms with more intangible assets responds less to monetary policy, and that intangible investment … responds less to monetary policy compared to tangible investment. We identify two mechanisms behind these results. First, firms …
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macroeconomic effects of public and private investment through VAR analysis. From impulse response functions, we are able to assess … the extent of crowding-in or crowding-out of both components of investment. We also compute the associated macroeconomic … rates of return of public and private investment for each country. The results point mostly to the existence of positive …
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We provide evidence that industries' supply curves are convex. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a model, in which capacity constraints at the plant level generate convex supply curves at the industry level. The industry's capacity utilization rate is a sufficient statistic for the...
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firm level investment and high-frequency identified monetary policy shocks. We show that the reaction of firms' investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422052
firms' investment ratio. Changes in user costs are significantly affected by changes in the monetary policy indicator. In … addition, firm specific balance sheet characteristics, such as the lagged cash stock to capital ratio influence the investment … behaviour according to the broad credit channel theory. Using various sample splits, it is shown that young firms, in particular …
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output changes. In the euro area investment is the predominant driver of output changes, while in the U.S. consumption shifts … investment, as the proximate cause for this fact, the source of the consumption difference remains a puzzle. …
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This paper investigates the link between corporate debt and investment for a group of five peripheral euro area … countries. Using firm-level data from 2005-2014, we postulate a non-linear corporate leverage-investment relationship and derive … thresholds beyond which leverage has a negative and significant impact on investment. The investment sensitivity of debt …
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, the positive impact of a marginal increase in debt on investment efficiency disappears if firm debt is already excessive … banks and investment efficiency …
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their investment more after the crisis. This negative effect is stronger for firms linked to weak banks with exposures to … corporate investment …
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