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What Explains the Lagged Investment Effect?
NBER Working Paper No. w16889
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Posted: 21 Mar 2011
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What Explains the Lagged Investment Effect?
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8309
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 18 Apr 2011
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Abstract
The best predictor of current investment at the firm level is lagged investment. This lagged-investment effect is empirically more important than the cash-flow and Q effects combined. We show that the specification of investment adjustment costs proposed by Christiano, Eichenbaum and Evans (2005) predicts the presence of a lagged-investment effect and that a generalized version of their model is consistent with the behavior of firm-level data from Compustat.
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Eberly, Janice C. and Tavares Rebelo, Sergio and Vincent, Nicolas, What Explains the Lagged Investment Effect? (March 2011). NBER Working Paper No. w16889, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1789470
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