business investment. To promote economic convergence of Eastern and Western Germany after reunification, bonus depreciation tax … incentives were granted for investments in Eastern Germany before 1999. Using business establishments in Western Germany as … control group, we address the question if and to what extent these investment tax incentives boosted investment. In line with …

-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 …-sectional firm dynamics ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks ; idiosyncratic shocks ; heterogeneous firms …

-varying uncertainty, highlighted in the literature. -- Ss model ; RBC model ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks …

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 …

the importance of the interest rate and credit channels on business fixed investment in Germany. We have at our disposal …The transmission channels through which monetary policy affects business investment remain opaque. This paper examines …

types of investment. We conclude that the higher environmental investments in establishments with councils are largely …