, the equilibrium loan rate spread increases, which raises bank profitability and the market-to-book value of bank capital … model’s dynamic implications in a panel VAR estimation, which suggests that bank lending has even increased in the long …

, the equilibrium loan rate spread increases, which raises bank profitability and the market-to-book value of bank capital … model’s dynamic implications in a panel VAR estimation, which suggests that bank lending has even increased in the long …

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 …

Macroeconomic and sector-specific shocks exert differential effects on investment in disaggregate sectoral data. The … monotonically. A calibrated model of investment with convex capital adjustment costs and rational inattention explains these … features of the data. The model matches the empirical responses of sectoral investment because learning about shocks generates …

response to an interest shock is found to be too large and no longer hump-shaped in this case. In addition we find that the … response of output to a technology shock can only be reconciled with empirical findings if either the adjustment of the …

policy does not remain loose throughout the low-supply phase: The central bank undoes the initial interest rate cuts once … aggregate demand gains momentum. If inflation also has inertia, the central bank still overheats the economy during the low …

the pre-1980 period. Measuring expectations of future monetary policy rates conditional on a news shock suggests that the …