-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 … correlation coefficient of 0.58, compared to 0.45 in the data. We argue more generally that the cross-sectional business cycle …

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 …

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

of firm-level investment is procyclical. We show that a heterogeneousfirm RBC model with quantitatively realistic … of the steady state investment rate distribution, produces investment dispersion that positively comoves with the cycle …, with a correlation coefficient of 0.65, compared to 0.61 in the data. We argue more generally that the cross …

-driven business cycle hypothesis for the case of aggregate investment. We construct a survey-based measure of technology shocks to … gauge their contribution to short-run investment fluctuations. We estimate an upper bound for the contribution of technology … shocks to the variance of the aggregate investment growth rate of 19 percent. The larger part of fluctuations in aggregate …