Endogene Sunk Costs und die Kostenstruktur -- Endogene Sunk Costs in einem „Love of Variety“ Modell -- Endogene Sunk Costs in einem „Ideal Variety“ Modell -- Anwendungen der Modelle mit endogenen Sunk Costs -- Schlussbemerkungen.

We study liquidity effects and cost channels within a model of nominal rigidities and imperfect competition that gives explicit role for money-credit markets and investment decisions. We find that cost channels matter for monetary transmission, amplifying the impact of supply shocks and...

We show that a standard DSGE model with investment cost channels has important model stability and policy implications. Our analysis suggests that in economies characterized by supply side well as demand side channels of monetary transmission, policymakers may have to resort to a much more...