We present a model of endogenous firm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth …) firm growth independent of firm size, as stated in the so-called Gibrat's law, and (iii) R&D investment proportional to …

To analyze business fixed investment in Japan, which has been unusually volatile in recent years, we develop and apply … a loglinear flexible accelerator model. We find that movements in business fixed investment are consistent with …

of 2007 as its only impulse - produces time series for aggregate labor usage, consumption, investment, and real GDP that … closely resemble actual U.S. time series. Despite having no explicit financial market, the model has investment fall steeply …

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 …

This paper analyzes the impact on firm behavior of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax …. Repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment, employment or R&D -- even for the firms that lobbied for the tax …

We develop a model of investment with financial constraints and use it to investigate the relation between investment … between q and investment, relative to the frictionless benchmark. We present a calibrated version of the model, which, due to … this effect, generates realistic correlations between investment, q, and cash flow …

decrease their Ramp;D spending (our main proxy for long-term investment) more than Japanese firms. We find no evidence that …

, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three … investment decisions are complementary, in the sense that investing in one increases the probability of investing in another one …