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Post-crisis business investment in the euro area and the role of monetary policy

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  • Martin Ademmer
  • Nils Jannsen

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Business investment in the euro area strongly declined during the Global Financial Crisis and the Sovereign Debt Crisis. It has not yet rebounded to its pre-crisis trend despite the very expansionary monetary policy measures of the ECB. We analyse the sluggish recovery in business investment in the euro area and the role of monetary policy in three steps. We investigate the main factors that have impeded business investment since the Global Financial Crisis. We empirically analyse how business investment has developed compared to typical patterns during other financial crises. Based on these results, we then discuss how effective monetary policy has been in stimulating business investment since the Global Financial Crisis. We conclude that business investment in the euro area has developed broadly in line with typical post-crisis patterns. Monetary policy significantly contributed to stabilize business investment at the beginning of the crises. In the aftermath of the crises, however, there seems to be little scope for monetary policy to further stimulate investment.

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  • Martin Ademmer & Nils Jannsen, 2018. "Post-crisis business investment in the euro area and the role of monetary policy," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(34-35), pages 3787-3797, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:50:y:2018:i:34-35:p:3787-3797
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2018.1436147
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    1. Balázs Égert, 2021. "Investment in OECD Countries: a Primer," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 63(2), pages 200-223, June.
    2. Egidijus Bikas & Evelina Glinskytė, 2021. "Financial Factors Determining the Investment Behavior of Lithuanian Business Companies," Economies, MDPI, vol. 9(2), pages 1-19, April.
    3. Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens & Fiedler, Salomon & Groll, Dominik & Jannsen, Nils & Kooths, Stefan & Mösle, Saskia, 2020. "Deutsche Konjunktur im Sommer 2020 - Deutsche Wirtschaft vor mühsamer Erholung [German Economy Summer 2020 - German economy faces sluggish recovery]," Kieler Konjunkturberichte 68, Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
    4. Ademmer, Martin & Beckmann, Joscha & Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens & Fiedler, Salomon & Groll, Dominik & Jannsen, Nils & Kooths, Stefan & Meuchelböck, Saskia, 2021. "Deutsche Wirtschaft im Sommer 2021 - Mehr Druck auf den Preisventilen [German Economy Summer 2021 - Pronounced price pressures]," Kieler Konjunkturberichte 80, Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

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    JEL classification:

    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • C32 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models

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