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shock. Our estimated model uncovers a central role for investment in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, as high … MPCs amplify the investment response in the data. This force also generates a procyclical response of consumption to … investment shocks, leading our model to infer a central role for these shocks as a source of business cycles …
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firm level investment and high-frequency identified monetary policy shocks. We show that the reaction of firms' investment …
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In this paper we quantitatively evaluate the hypothesis that the Great Moderation is partly the result of a less activist monetary policy. We simulate a New Keynesian model where the central bank can only observe a noisy estimate of the output gap and fnd that the less pronounced reaction of the...
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accelerator specification of investment demand augmented by the liquidity ratio and a firm specific user cost of capital. The … significant for young firms due mainly to the fact that young firms rely more heavily on sales to increase investment. In general … it is found that firms can reduce the sensivity of investment to their liquidity position by building lending …
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This paper examines the sensitivity of investment to cash flow using a panel of UK firms in manufacturing with a view … debt accumulation), we also investigate the extent to which investment becomes more sensitive to cash flow in periods of … pioneered by Romer and Romer. The results provide some support for the view that UK firms show greater investment sensitivity to …
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How does the dispersion of firm-level shocks affect the investment channel of monetary policy? Using firm-level panel … policy has dampened real effects via the investment channel when firm-level TFP shock volatility is high. Our estimates for …
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We investigate the transmission of monetary policy to investment using Norwegian administrative data. We have two main … that firm heterogeneity plays a minor role in monetary transmission. Second, we disentangle the investment channel of … investment channel of monetary policy is due almost exclusively to direct effects. The two results imply that a representative …
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term deposits. The increase in risky investment is about 10 times as much as the increase in consumption, suggesting that … elasticity of risky investments to be -19.5. Furthermore, we find that the effects on consumption and risky investment are larger … less liquid wealth and the portfolio rebalancing effect on risky investment is larger for those with more liquid wealth …
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This paper is concerned with how stylised differences in monetary policy transmission mechanisms and product and labour market rigidities between the US and euro-area economies affect their resilience to temporary shocks. To address this issue, a small general equilibrium model with long-run...
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