model is rejected in favor of an alternative in which capital investment requires a planning period. …

We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a … in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of marital dissolution. We analyze the saving behaviour over time of …

This paper investigates the relationship between infation uncertainty and investment using a panel of loan-level data … investment. Moreover, there is a shift in the composition of investment away from fixed assets and towards working capital - the … more flexible factor of production - and fixed asset investment exhibits periods of inaction consistent with real option …

investment. Uncertainty increases real option values making firms more cautious when investing or disinvesting. This is confirmed … both numerically for a model with a rich mix of adjustment costs, time-varying uncertainty, and aggregation over investment … investment response to demand shocks. This implies the responsiveness of firms to any given policy stimulus may be much lower in …

employment, investment and productivity, and a moderate loss in GDP. This temporary impact of a second moment shock is different …

even after controlling for investment, size, book-to-market and momentum as well as other known predictors of stock returns …-adjusted discount rates. The model implies that the investment rate and the hiring rate predicts stock returns because these variables …