shock. Our estimated model uncovers a central role for investment in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, as high … MPCs amplify the investment response in the data. This force also generates a procyclical response of consumption to … investment shocks, leading our model to infer a central role for these shocks as a source of business cycles. …

Paper deals with the analysis of investment in the business cycle. Analysis is based on available quarterly data for … the Czech Republic since 1st quarter 1999 till 1st quarter 2014. It concludes that investment on the macroeconomic level … is highly pro-cyclical component of demand, which fluctuates in the business cycle more than GDP. Investment of …

-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 …

material to the economy's investment prospects and whether the importance of this channel differs depending on the structure of … corporate financing i.e., bank-based or market-oriented financing structures. Based on a dynamic business investment error … financial position of non-financial corporations has a statistically significant impact on aggregate business investment growth …

We estimate a New-Neoclassical Synthesis model of the business cycle with two investment shocks. The first, an … investment-specific technology shock, affects the transformation of consumption into investment goods and is identified with the … relative price of investment. The second shock affects the production of installed capital from investment goods or, more …

effect of time-varying uncertainty, highlighted in the literature. -- Ss model ; RBC model ; lumpy investment …