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Financial Constraints and the Response of Business Investment to Monetary Policy Shocks Cover

Financial Constraints and the Response of Business Investment to Monetary Policy Shocks

Open Access
|Sep 2016

Abstract

In this study I investigate what impact monetary policy shocks have on firms’ fixed investment, the less liquid portion of gross investment that requires more planning. I account for firms facing financial constraints firms by utilizing a common measure of asset size, which is used in previous literature. I use two exogenous, continuous series of monetary policy shocks to show that constrained firms have statistically different responses to policy than unconstrained firms. Specifically, I find that constrained firms’ fixed investment significantly responds more to monetary policy shocks than unconstrained firms.

Language: English
Page range: 31 - 46
Submitted on: Jan 27, 2016
Accepted on: Mar 10, 2016
Published on: Sep 23, 2016
Published by: Central Bank of Montenegro
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year

© 2016 Timothy J. Haase, published by Central Bank of Montenegro
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