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 …

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 …

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 …

In this paper we derive a model of aggregate investment that builds from the lumpy microeconomic behavior of firms … aggregate investment obtained from adding up the actions of firms subject to aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks, is highly non … postwar sectoral U.S. manufacturing equipment and structures investment. For a given sequence of aggregate shocks, the …

The sensitivity of U.S. aggregate investment to shocks is procyclical: the initial response increases by approximately … counterexample to the claim that microeconomic investment lumpiness is inconsequential for macroeconomic analysis …

The 90s have witnessed a revival in economists' interest and hope of explaining" aggregate and microeconomic investment … of the investment problem also has been significant. " The concept of sunk costs is at the center of modern theories. The … implications of these costs for" investment go well beyond the neoclassical response to the irreversible-technological friction …

The sensitivity of U.S. aggregate investment to shocks is procyclical: the initial response increases by approximately … counterexample to the claim that microeconomic investment lumpiness is inconsequential for macroeconomic analysis …