This paper proposes a new framework for studying the effects of monetary policy on business investment. Important … ambiguities with the modeling of investment dynamics and interactions between real and financial decisions suggest modeling … investment spending as a VAR. Based on a panel of financial statement data for 6,408 German firms (44,345 datapoints …

firms in making their investment decisions. We use a revealed preference approach that relies on the pattern of investment … spending - combined with investment theory - to estimate the discount rates used by managers. The standard story predicts that … firms with high stock prices and good investment opportunities should have discount rates that do not differ systematically …