capital (investment network). For each network, we document a declining fraction of production by goods sectors and a rising … investment production are substitutes, rather than strong complements as suggested by existing work. Hence, resources … endogenously reallocate toward the fastest growing producers of investment. Growth accounting exercises demonstrate that investment …

equilibrium, general-equilibrium effects overturn this result: a monetary expansion increases the investment of high-productivity … their productivity and net worth and face collateral constraints that cause capital misallocation. TFP endogenously depends … firms relatively more than that of low-productivity ones, crowding out the latter and increasing TFP. We provide empirical …

IT investment in any sectors, it does significantly improve labor productivity for firms in manufacturing and in …, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of firms, as it allows them to quickly customize the IT they require to …

question in the context of a heterogeneous-firm RBC model with persistent firm-level productivity shocks and lumpy capital …

-level investment is procyclical. We show that a heterogeneous-firm RBC model with quantitatively realistic countercyclically disperse … state investment rate distribution, produces investment dispersion that positively comoves with the cycle, with a …

This paper examines how trade liberalization affects the innovation incentives of firms, and what this implies for … industry productivity. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms … expected industry productivity. The central results of the paper regarding firm and industry level R&D spending differ …

shock. Our estimated model uncovers a central role for investment in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, as high … MPCs amplify the investment response in the data. This force also generates a procyclical response of consumption to … investment shocks, leading our model to infer a central role for these shocks as a source of business cycles …

complementary investment in production activities. Our theoretical findings are motivated by existing empirical evidence and a fresh …

investment in an international infrastructure capital, the stock of which accumulates over time. Depending on the trade costs and … consideration, the governments carry out a dynamic game of public investment. We show that the dynamic equilibrium of the policy …