This paper analyses the theoretical and policy implications of assuming firm-specific lumpy investment behaviour by … firms and compares such implications to those occurring when adopting different investment specifications in a new …-Keynesian framework. We develop numerical simulations of the lumpy investment model by Sveen and Weinke (2007) and of other five …

The article analyses recent developments in business investment for a large group of EU countries, using a broad set of … analytical tools and data sources. We find that the assessment of whether or not investment is currently low varies across … benchmarks and countries. At the euro area level and for most countries, the level of business investment is broadly in line with …

While investment in most sectors declines in response to a contractionary monetary policy shock, investment in the …

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. …

factors (mainly, cash flows and other controlling variables) on corporate investment. By employing system-GMM estimation for … borrowing activities but also results in more corporate investment activities over the period from 2006 to 2016. Noticeably, the … internal cash flow is also significant factor, which enhances the activities of corporate investment. Finally, there are …

Is monetary policy less effective at stimulating investment during periods of elevated volatility (when all firms … elevated volatility leads to a decrease in extensive margin investment incentive so that nominal stimulus generates less … aggregate investment. To do this, I first document empirically that high volatility weakens firms' investment responses to …

We argue that secular change in both the production and composition of investment goods has weakened private investment … the production of investment goods amplify the response of consumption to monetary policy shocks by varying labor income … investment goods production has declined, (ii) the import share of investment goods has risen, and (iii) the composition of …

How does the dispersion of firm-level shocks affect the investment channel of monetary policy? Using firm-level panel … policy has dampened real effects via the investment channel when firm-level TFP shock volatility is high. Our estimates for …

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 …