We investigate how the level of corporate leverage affects firms' investment response to monetary policy shocks. Based … investment demand more strongly after a contractionary shock, the price of capital declines sharply, which incentivizes all firms … regardless of their leverage to invest relatively more, muting the aggregate decline of investment. We provide empirical evidence …

. While both types of policy tightening diminish French firms’ investment, the transmission of conventional monetary policy … investment more for firms with higher bond shares of total debt. We further investigate the transmission channels and show that …

holds for the microeconomic response of some of the most important economic variables, such as investment, labor demand, and … actual response to shocks is less than half as fast as the estimated response. For investment, labor demand and prices, the …, even after aggregating investment across all establishments in U.S. manufacturing, the estimate of its speed of adjustment …