This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use … panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National … partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is …

, confirming the predictions of the model about the effect of customer discrimination on capital investment …

study, I examine how introducing a time delay into the execution of an investment plan influences individuals' risk … outset, in the Decision Stage (Stage 1), each subject was asked to make an investment plan by splitting a monetary investment … amount between a risky asset and a safe asset. Subjects were informed that the investment plans they made in the Decision …

The interest rate is generally considered as an important driver of macroeconomic investment. As an innovation, this … paper derives the exact shape of the "hysteretic" impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under … capital stock and, explicitly, of stochastic changes on the interest rate-investment hysteresis. Starting with hysteresis …

The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability …. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank … impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under certainty and under uncertainty to investigate …

In this paper, we present a simple model in which a unionized and non-unionized firm optimally make investment …