 Firm-level adjustment costs and aggregate investment dynamics – Estimation on Hungarian dataNo 2010/2, MNB Working Papers from Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Central Bank of Hungary) Abstract: This paper uses Hungarian data to estimate the structural parameters of a firm-level investment model with a rich structure of adjustment costs, and analyzes whether non-convex adjustment costs have any effect on the aggregate investment dynamics. The main question addressed is whether aggregate profitability shocks (as a result of monetary policy, for example) lead to different aggregate investment dynamics under non-convex and convex adjustment costs. The main finding is that while non-convex adjustment costs make investment lumpier at the firmlevel, they lead to a more flexible adjustment pattern at the aggregate level. This is because the model is calibrated to have the same proportion of inactive (i.e. non-investing) firms under convex and non-convex adjustment costs, but the average size of new investment of active firms is higher under non-convex adjustment costs. Keywords: Capital adjustment costs; lumpy investment; irreversible investment; aggregation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mnb:wpaper:2010/2 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in MNB Working Papers from Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Central Bank of Hungary) Contact information at EDIRC. |
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