-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 …-sectional firm dynamics ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks ; idiosyncratic shocks ; heterogeneous firms …

-varying uncertainty, highlighted in the literature. -- Ss model ; RBC model ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks …

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 … ; cross-sectional firm dynamics ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks ; idiosyncratic shocks …

-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 …

The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological … factors, finance, return expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. We show that … these subjective investment determinants 1) capture economically what their labels suggest, and 2) have strong explanatory …

the help of a VAR-Model we can analyze interdependencies between the business cycle, STC and unemployment, finding … makroökonomischer Datenanalyse zu antworten. Dazu wird auf ein VAR-Modell zurückgegriffen, bei dem mit Hilfe einer Impulse …

Using aggregate data, the paper analyzes the importance of inventory investment for German business cycles since 1960 … evidence. Preliminary national accounts data of inventory investment have particularly poor quality. In order to be able to …

investment as published in the German national accounts are tremendously prone to revision and therefore ill-equipped to diagnose …

Real residential investment in Germany is found to be cointegrated with population, real national income per capita and … adjustment via residential investment slowed down substantially and real house prices lost the capacity to contribute to the … to explain significant differences in alternative trend-cycle decompositions of residential investment. …