We show that credit supply shocks have a strong impact on firm-level as well as aggregate investment by applying the … are found to impair firm-level investment in all firms in our sample, but in particular for small firms and those with no … 20–40% of aggregate investment dynamics. …

We test whether firms with a single bank are better shielded from loss of credit and investment cuts in periods of … adverse cash flow shocks than firms with multiple bank relationships. Our estimates of the cash flow sensitivity of investment … shocks. In these periods, firms incur lower cuts in investment expenditures when they can obtain extra credit. In periods of …

holds for the microeconomic response of some of the most important economic variables, such as investment, labor demand, and … actual response to shocks is less than half as fast as the estimated response. For investment, labor demand and prices, the …, even after aggregating investment across all establishments in U.S. manufacturing, the estimate of its speed of adjustment …