-2000 sample, the initial response of investment to a productivity shock with responses in the top quartile is 60% higher than the … shock. Conversely, a slowdown after a boom can lead to a long lasting investment slump, which is unresponsive to policy … smoothing in the investment response to aggregate shocks. The remaining 40% is explained by general equilibrium forces. The …

The sensitivity of U.S. aggregate investment to shocks is procyclical: the initial response increases by approximately … counterexample to the claim that microeconomic investment lumpiness is inconsequential for macroeconomic analysis …

The sensitivity of U.S. aggregate investment to shocks is procyclical: the initial response increases by approximately … counterexample to the claim that microeconomic investment lumpiness is inconsequential for macroeconomic analysis …

The sensitivity of U.S. aggregate investment to shocks is procyclical: the response upon impact increases by … a counterexample to the claim that microeconomic investment lumpiness is inconsequential for macroeconomic analysis …

holds for the microeconomic response of some of the most important economic variables, such as investment, labor demand, and … actual response to shocks is less than half as fast as the estimated response. For investment, labor demand and prices, the …, even after aggregating investment across all establishments in U.S. manufacturing, the estimate of its speed of adjustment …

firm level investment and high-frequency identified monetary policy shocks. We show that the reaction of firms' investment … to a monetary policy shock is heterogeneous along dimensions that correspond to the two main channels of monetary policy …

We test whether firms with a single bank are better shielded from loss of credit and investment cuts in periods of … adverse cash flow shocks than firms with multiple bank relationships. Our estimates of the cash flow sensitivity of investment … shocks. In these periods, firms incur lower cuts in investment expenditures when they can obtain extra credit. In periods of …