explaining the consumption path after a Marginal Efficiency of Investment shock. We use an otherwise standard medium-scale New …

Is real investment fully determined by fundamentals or is it sometimes affected by stock market misvaluation? We … introduce three new tests that: measure the reaction of investment to sales shocks for firms that may be overvalued; use Fama … misvaluation into standard investment equations to estimate the quantitative effect of misvaluation on investment. Overall, the …

firms in making their investment decisions.We use a revealed preference approach that relies on the pattern of investment … spending – combined with investment theory – to estimate the discount rates used by managers. The standard story predicts that … firms with high stock prices and good investment opportunities should have discount rates that do not differ systematically …

In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in … allows allocating investments by asset type to each industry, using an investment flow matrix. The database enables … researchers to analyze structural investment behavior on the industry level and to identify changes in the importance of in-vestment …

firms in making their investment decisions.We use a revealed preference approach that relies on the pattern of investment … spending – combined with investment theory – to estimate the discount rates used by managers. The standard story predicts that … firms with high stock prices and good investment opportunities should have discount rates that do not differ systematically …

from households. Loan activity typically decreases when entrepreneurs' investment returns decline, and we study which type …

, resulted in lower investment, employment, and bank debt for younger and smaller firms. Importantly, these effects dominate … those of banks' balance-sheet variables. We also show that higher CDS spreads led to lower aggregate investment, employment …

Is real investment fully determined by fundamentals or is it sometimes affected by stock market misvaluation? We … introduce three new tests that: measure the reaction of investment to sales shocks for firms that may be overvalued; use Fama … misvaluation into standard investment equations to estimate the quantitative effect of misvaluation on investment. Overall, the …

from households. Loan activity typically decreases when entrepreneurs’ investment returns decline, and we study which type …