firm characteristics - Tobin's Q, past investment, earnings-price ratios, market betas, and idiosyncratic volatility of … returns by aggregate investment and valuation ratios; and v) a downward sloping term structure of risk premia for dividend … strips. Our model delivers testable predictions about the behavior of firm-level real variables - investment and output …

one type of capital good to save and invest in, fixed capital investment dynamics are tightly linked to consumption … dynamics, which are similar across lumpy and frictionless investment models. With capital goods heterogeneity, households … capital adjustment frictions. We quantify our arguments by introducing inventories into a two-sector lumpy investment model …

The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological … factors, finance, return expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. We show that … these subjective investment determinants 1) capture economically what their labels suggest, and 2) have strong explanatory …

We show that supply-side financial shocks have a large impact on firms' investment. We develop a new methodology to … of aggregate loan and investment fluctuations …

probability of disaster leads to a collapse of investment and a recession, an increase in risk spreads, and a decrease in the … of business cycle dynamics, especially sharp downturns in investment and output such as 2008-IV …

accounting identities of the US and the rest of the world. We find that exogenous tax increases are only partially offset by … change in US saving is absorbed by increased domestic investment (contrary to Feldstein & Horioka). Almost half of the fiscal … deficits and increases in investment in other countries in the world. We cannot reject that the shock is uniformly transmitted …

investment-specific technology shocks in generating fluctuations in hours. Using a neoclassical stochastic growth model, we show … estimation procedures result in technology shocks accounting for 2% to 9% of the variation in hours worked in the data. We infer …

rigidities: investment adjustment costs, variable capacity utilization, habit formation in consumption, and habit formation in … investment-specific shocks, and government spending shocks. Each of these shocks is buffeted by four types of structural …