Michael Reiter, Tommy Sveen, Lutz Weinke

Idiosyncratic Shocks, Lumpy Investment and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism

  • Economics and Econometrics

Abstract Standard (S, s) models of lumpy investment allow us to match many aspects of the micro data, but it is well known that the implied interest rate sensitivity of investment is unrealistically large. In fact, the micro-level lumpiness in investment puts empirical discipline on the modeling of investment decisions, and this makes it hard to explain the monetary policy transmission mechanism.

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