impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under certainty and under uncertainty to investigate … whether uncertainty over future interest rates in the Euro area hampers monetary policy transmission. In this non-linear model … 'play' area. Second, we apply an algorithm describing path-dependent play-hysteresis to estimate investment hysteresis using …

participation plays in this effect for 11 new European Union member states. Using heterogeneous panel cointegration methods, we …

of firm volatility across industries: for example, sunk capital costs, uncertainty about profits and technological change … measure uncertainty about profits and technological change, while the latter enables us to obtain information on the industry …. Our empirical findings show that: (1) industries with higher sunk capital costs and profit uncertainty have significantly …