Volatility and Growth: Credit Constraints and the Composition of Investment

How does uncertainty and credit constraints affect the cyclical composition of investment and thereby volatility and growth? This paper addresses this question within a model where firms engage in two types of investment: a short-term one; and a long-term one, which contributes more to productivity...

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Main Authors: Aghion, Philippe, Angeletos, George-Marios, Banerjee, Abhijit, Manova, Kalina
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52352
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9269-5094
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9923-6088