Eberly, Janice C.; Rebelo, Sérgio; Vincent, Nicolas - 2011
"The best predictor of current investment at the firm level is lagged investment. This lagged-investment effect is … empirically more important than the cash-flow and Q effects combined. We show that the specification of investment adjustment … costs proposed by Christiano, Eichenbaum and Evans (2005) predicts the presence of a lagged-investment effect and that a …