-period world with identical homothetic preferences and without investment, the global interest rate falls and the Green Paradox … weakens. With investment or a relatively more impatient oil-importing region, the Green Paradox may be strengthened because …

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 …