We examine a model of lumpy investment wherein establishments face persistent shocks to common and plant-specific productivity, and nonconvex adjustment costs lead them to pursue generalized (S,s) investment rules. We allow persistent heterogeneity in both capital and total factor productivity...

Inflation, Employment and Interest Rates in an Economy with Endogenous Market Segmentation Aubhik Khan, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Julia K. Thomas, University of Minnesota We examine a monetary economy where households incur fixed transactions costs when exchanging bonds and money and,...

We solve the first general equilibrium model of lumpy investment allowing a quantitative match with recent empirical evidence on establishment-level investment dynamics. In our model, establishments are subject to both persistent aggregate and persistent idiosyncratic shocks, and they face...

We introduce capital accumulation into an economy where individuals have private information with respect to productivity shocks. Efficient, incentive-compatible risk-sharing is achieved by conditioning current and future payoffs on the history of productivity reports. We develop a notion of...

We show that a rise in uncertainty on its own generates a substantial drop in employment, production and investment. In keeping with previous findings in the literature, we find these initial declines are larger in the presence of capital irreversibility than without, as firms experiencing...

We examine a monetary economy wherein endogenous asset market segmentation permits the extent of household participation in open market operations to vary smoothly with changes in aggregate conditions. While we impose no stickiness at the microeconomic level in either prices or portfolio...

We study the cyclical implications of credit market imperfections in a dynamic, stochastic general equilibrium model wherein firms face persistent shocks to both aggregate and individual productivity. In our model economy, optimal capital reallocation is distorted by two frictions. First,...