This paper studies the effect of interest rates on investment in an environment where firms make irreversible … delaying investment. These two forces combine to generate an aggregate investment demand curve that is always a backward …-bending function of the interest rate. At low rates, increasing the interest rate stimulates investment by raising the cost of delay …

We study a model of lumpy investment wherein establishments face persistent shocks to common and plant …-specific productivity, and nonconvex adjustment costs lead them to pursue generalized (S,s) investment rules. We allow persistent … the first model consistent with available evidence on establishment-level investment rates. Examining the implications of …

, consumption/savings, and portfolio selection. For a lump-sum investment payoff and an agent with a sufficiently strong … precautionary savings motive, an increase in volatility can accelerate investment, contrary to the standard real options analysis …. When the agent can trade the market portfolio to partially hedge against investment risk, the systematic volatility is …

This paper examines distortions in corporate investment decisions when a new project changes firm risk. It presents a … dynamic model in which a self-interested, risk-averse manager makes investment decisions at a levered firm. The model …, calibrated using data from public firms, is used to estimate the magnitude of distortions in investment decisions. Despite …

that, on the investment in risky projects, welfare and growth. We find that the welfare gain of financial market openness …

chosen to reproduce the nonlinear relationship between investment and profitability that we uncover in the plant-level data …

This paper estimates the micro-level costs of adjusting capital using detailed data on" investment decisions in the US … clear evidence of non-convex adjustment costs inaction for capital investment and quadratic adjustment costs conditional on … positive or negative" investment. The adjustment costs for utilization show similar non-convexities but with smaller …

Using plant-level data from Chile and the U.S. we show that investment spikes are highly pro-cyclical, so much so that … changes in the number of establishments undergoing investment spikes (the "extensive margin") account for the bulk of … variation in aggregate investment. The number of establishments undergoing investment spikes also has independent predictive …

We embed the microeconomic decisions associated with investment under uncertainty, capacity utilization, and machine … mean-preserving spread in the productivity of investment raises aggregate investment, productivity, and output. Increases … in uncertainty have important dynamic implications, causing sustained increases in investment and hours and a medium …