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Investment and Productivity Dynamics at the Plant and the Firm Level

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  • Nicolas Vincent

    (HEC Montréal)

  • Matthias Kehrig

    (University of Texas at Austin)

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Using micro-level Census data, we document that investment across plants within the same firm is more dispersed than investment across firms. In an expansion, investment patterns across plants within a firm become even more dispersed while between-firm dispersion does not vary over the business cycle. Contrary to the procyclical investment dispersion, productivity dispersion across plants within a firm is countercyclical which in the absence of frictions would lead to a countercyclical investment dispersion. Although firms tend to pick relatively productive plants for large investment projects in booms, this productivity-investment link vanishes in a recession. We use these findings to explore the quantitative relevance of real and financial frictions in a quantitative model of multi-plant firms. Frictions internal to the firm seem to govern the majority of investment dynamics compared to frictions in external capital markets.

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  • Nicolas Vincent & Matthias Kehrig, 2013. "Investment and Productivity Dynamics at the Plant and the Firm Level," 2013 Meeting Papers 212, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    • Handle: RePEc:red:sed013:212
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