that anticipate the actual tax base incorrectly. I analyze the effects of stochastic taxation on investment behavior in a … the effects of both tax base and tax rate uncertainty, the investment's tax payment is modelled as a stochastic process …. Increased tax uncertainty has an ambiguous impact on investment timing. The view that tax uncertainty depresses real investment …

We analyze the impact of progressive taxation on irreversible investment under uncertainty. We show that if tax … exemption is lower than sunk cost, higher tax rate will decelerate optimal investment by increasing the optimal investment … investment threshold is a positive function of volatility, but independent of tax rate. For "medium" volatilities it is …

We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian … random walk benchmark in an out-of-sample environment. Second, lags of investment growth, crude oil price growth and realized … volatility is found to be adequate predictors for the investment growth. Finally, there is a clear benefit from re-estimating the …

wedge between the discount rate guiding investment decisions and the standard Jorgensonian user cost (adjusted for risk). We …When investment is irreversible, theory suggests that firms will be "reluctant to invest." This reluctance creates a …

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 …

equilibrium, general-equilibrium effects overturn this result: a monetary expansion increases the investment of high …