Consumption and investment comove over the business cycle in response to shocks that permanently move the price of … investment. The interpretation of these shocks has relied on standard one-sector models or on models with two or more sectors … commingling of sectoral outputs in the assembly of final consumption and investment goods, in line with the U.S. Input …

investment-specific technology shock, affects the transformation of consumption into investment goods and is identified with the … relative price of investment. The second shock affects the production of installed capital from investment goods or, more …We estimate a New-Neoclassical Synthesis model of the business cycle with two investment shocks. The first, an …

investment-specific technology shock, affects the transformation of consumption into investment goods and is identified with the … relative price of investment. The second shock affects the production of installed capital from investment goods or, more …We estimate a New-Neoclassical Synthesis model of the business cycle with two investment shocks. The first, an …

&D investment. As this is very controversial from an empirical perspective, a stochastic Poisson model of endogenous business cycles … and growth is presented where the determinants of the cyclical behaviour of R&D investment are analytically studied …

Investment-specific technology (IST) shocks are often interpreted as multi-factor productivity (MFP) shocks in a … separate investment-producing sector. However, this interpretation is strictly valid only when some stringent conditions are … effects of IST shocks in a one-sector model differ from those of MFP shocks to an investment-producing sector of a two …

frictions, they are by no means enough to account for the observed economic fluctuations. Investment wedges play a major role …