We present a comparable set of results on the monetary transmission channels on firm investment for the four largest … channel. For each of those countries, we estimate neoclassical investment relationships, explaining investment by its user … cost, sales and cash flow. We find investment to be sensitive to user cost changes in all those four countries. This …

The paper explores the investment behaviour of German firms in the context of the Q-approach, which plays a dominant … role in empirical investment research. The analysis is based on the Deutsche Bundesbank's corporate balance sheet … by Gilchrist and Himmelberg. We compare the results from two different estimation techniques for dynamic investment …

business investment. To promote economic convergence of Eastern and Western Germany after reunification, bonus depreciation tax … control group, we address the question if and to what extent these investment tax incentives boosted investment. In line with … were cut back in 1997. Moreover, there was a significant reduction in building investment in the year after the expiration …

Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the … time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to … account, but a significant positive relationship between cash flow and investment remains for relatively small firms. In the …

, investment, and the production technology. A three-step decision structure is assumed, with short-run adjustment of output …

This paper examines the impact of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) on domestic investment by applying co … of the US, OFDI has positive long-run effects on domestic investment while in the case of Germany the reverse effect is …

dynamics as investment conditions are similar. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis. Furthermore, there is no …

Previous studies argued that low investment-cash flow sensitivities of German firms may be caused by dominance of … panel data approach show that the dependence of investment spending on internal funds does not significantly differ between …