co-movement of output, investment and consumption and (iii) consumption smoothing. …

one type of capital good to save and invest in, fixed capital investment dynamics are tightly linked to consumption … dynamics, which are similar across lumpy and frictionless investment models. With capital goods heterogeneity, households … capital adjustment frictions. We quantify our arguments by introducing inventories into a two-sector lumpy investment model …

-driven business cycle hypothesis for the case of aggregate investment. We construct a survey-based measure of technology shocks to … gauge their contribution to short-run investment fluctuations. We estimate an upper bound for the contribution of technology … shocks to the variance of the aggregate investment growth rate of 19 percent. The larger part of fluctuations in aggregate …

investment; the impact of uncertainty on investment occurs primarily through changes in credit spreads; and innovations in credit … spreads have a strong effect on investment, irrespective of the level of uncertainty. These findings raise a question … financial shocks. By influencing the effective supply of credit, both types of shocks exert a powerful effect on investment and …

We present a model of investment hangover motivated by the Great Recession. In our model, overbuilding of residential … economy enters a liquidity trap with limited reallocation and low output. The drop in output reduces nonresidential investment … through a mechanism similar to the acceleration principle of investment. The burst in nonresidential investment is followed by …

We develop a dynamic model of trading and investment with limited aggregate resources to study investment cycles …. Unverifiable idiosyncratic investment opportunities imply market prices to play a role of rent distribution, distorting private … investment incentives from a social point of view. This distortion is price-dependent, leading to two-sided inefficient …