Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/222658 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper No. 39/2020
Publisher: 
Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We develop an extended real business cycle (RBC) model with financially con-strained firms and non-pledgeable intangible capital. Based on a model-consistentseries for firms' borrowing conditions, we find, within a structural vector autoregres-sion (SVAR) framework, that, in response to an adverse financial shock, tangible in-vestment falls more than intangible investment. This positive co-movement betweentangible and intangible investment as well as the relative resilience of intangibleinvestment pose a challenge for the theoretical model. We show that investment-specific adjustment costs help in reconciling the model with the observed empiricalevidence. The estimation of the theoretical model using a Bayesian limited infor-mation approach yields support for the presence of much larger adjustment costsfor intangible investment than for tangible investment.
Subjects: 
tangible investment
intangible investment
financial shocks
euro area
JEL: 
C32
E32
E44
ISBN: 
978-3-95729-740-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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