question in the context of a heterogeneous-firm RBC model with persistent firm-level productivity shocks and lumpy capital …-varying uncertainty, highlighted in the literature. -- Ss model ; RBC model ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks …

-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 …

models suggest that a shortfall in productivity-enhancing investments temporarily slows technological progress, creating a …-level exposure to the 2008-9 financial crisis, I show that tight credit reduced investments in productivity-enhancement, and has … 12% higher today if productivity-enhancing investments had grown at pre-crisis rates. …

We document the empirical fact that asset prices in the consumption-goods and investment-goods sector behave almost …

Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth … that commenced around 2005. The successful integration of five million predominantly low-productivity workers into the … labor market induced an attenuating effect on productivity growth. This does not explain the slowdown entirely, however. As …

identification procedure, we show that the dominant shock driving total factor productivity (TFP) is akin to a diffusion or news …

&D investment. As this is very controversial from an empirical perspective, a stochastic Poisson model of endogenous business cycles … and growth is presented where the determinants of the cyclical behaviour of R&D investment are analytically studied …