major intermediate input into expanding plant capacity, investment goods, is coutercyclical. The ratio of these prices is … expanding plant capacity by installing investment goods (`adjustment costs'). Also, its numerator and denominator have such … technology for producing investment goods. The adjustment costs cause the two prices to respond differently to these two shocks …

accumulation process lead to fluctuations in the real returns from intermediated investment. For this economy, we find that the … output, investment is negatively correlated with output, variations in the capital stock are quite large and interest rates …

Recent empirical evidence identifies investment shocks as key driving forces behind business cycle fluctuations … between consumption growth and investment growth, a weak positive unconditional correlation between consumption growth and … short-run contractionary effect a positive investment shock on consumption. Such counterfactual co-movements are typical of …

In the presence of asymmetric information, the stage at which financing decisions are made about investment projects in … channeling savings into investment. This paper compares the implications of two extreme cases regarding the information possessed …

This paper assesses different organizational forms in terms of their ability to generate information about investment … costlessly hardened' and passed along within the hierarchy. As a concrete application of the theory, the paper discusses the …, this is exactly what the theory would lead one to expect …

Kaplan and Zingales [1997] provide both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence that investment-cash flow …

This paper evaluates the effects of fiscal policy on investment using a panel of OECD countries. In particular, we … investigate how different types of fiscal policy affect profits and , as a result, investment. We find a sizable negative effect … of public spending -- and in particular of its public wage component -- on business investment. This result is consistent …