same conclusions concerning the investment behaviour of German manufacturing firms based on the Deutsche Bundesbank …'s Corporate Balance Sheet Statistics. Investment is strongly positive dependent on lagged investment and Q. Nevertheless, in …

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 interpretation of the significant relation between business investment spending and cash flow has been … controversial. A large body of research has found that investment/cash flow sensitivities are higher for financially constrained … with the Kaplan and Zingales critique, investment/cash flow sensitivities are lower for financially constrained firms. This …

This paper proposes a new framework for studying the effects of monetary policy on business investment. Important … ambiguities with the modeling of investment dynamics and interactions between real and financial decisions suggest modeling … investment spending as a VAR. Based on a panel of financial statement data for 6,408 German firms (44,345 datapoints …

Using aggregate data, the paper analyzes the importance of inventory investment for German business cycles since 1960 … evidence. Preliminary national accounts data of inventory investment have particularly poor quality. In order to be able to …

investment as published in the German national accounts are tremendously prone to revision and therefore ill-equipped to diagnose …

Real residential investment in Germany is found to be cointegrated with population, real national income per capita and … adjustment via residential investment slowed down substantially and real house prices lost the capacity to contribute to the … to explain significant differences in alternative trend-cycle decompositions of residential investment. …

We develop a formula for user costs of housing on the basis of a neoclassical approach to housing investment which does …