spending shocks, preference shocks) on aggregate output and investment, and why this volatility-reducing effect diminishes with …

heterogenous firms facing borrowing constraints and investment irreversibility, it is shown that financial liberalization increases … the lumpiness of firm-level investment but decreases the variance of aggregate output. Hence, the model predicts that …

-level investment is procyclical. We show that a heterogeneous-firm RBC model with quantitatively realistic countercyclically disperse … state investment rate distribution, produces investment dispersion that positively comoves with the cycle, with a …-sectional firm dynamics ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks ; idiosyncratic shocks ; heterogeneous firms …

-varying uncertainty, highlighted in the literature. -- Ss model ; RBC model ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks …

effect of time-varying uncertainty, highlighted in the literature. -- Ss model ; RBC model ; lumpy investment …

of firm-level investment is procyclical. We show that a heterogeneousfirm RBC model with quantitatively realistic … of the steady state investment rate distribution, produces investment dispersion that positively comoves with the cycle … ; cross-sectional firm dynamics ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks ; idiosyncratic shocks …

Firm-level investment is lumpy and volatile but aggregate investment is much smoother and highly serially correlated …. These different patterns of investment behavior have been viewed as indicating convex adjustment costs at the aggregate … yet at the same time generate lumpiness in plant-level investment. In particular, our model can (i) derive aggregate …

-driven business cycle hypothesis for the case of aggregate investment. We construct a survey-based measure of technology shocks to … gauge their contribution to short-run investment fluctuations. We estimate an upper bound for the contribution of technology … shocks to the variance of the aggregate investment growth rate of 19 percent. The larger part of fluctuations in aggregate …

The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological … factors, finance, return expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. We show that … these subjective investment determinants 1) capture economically what their labels suggest, and 2) have strong explanatory …

investment demand and the production of capital goods. There are three major findings: first, capital suppliers¡¯ inventory … behavior makes investment demand more volatile in equilibrium; second, equilibrium price of capital is characterized by …