Do news shocks increase capital utilization? |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Management, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy;2. Department of Economics and Social Science, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy;1. Department of Financial Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon, 16499, Republic of Korea;2. Department of Applied Mathematics & Institute of Natural Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, 17104, Republic of Korea;3. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Republic of Korea;1. Texas A&M University, Department of Finance, Mays Business School, College Station, TX, 77843, USA;2. University of Valladolid (Spain), NRU Higher School of Economics (Russia), School of Business and Economics, Avda. Valle Del Esgueva 6, 47011, Valladolid, Spain;3. University of Valladolid, School of Business and Economics, Avda. Valle Del Esgueva 6, 47011, Valladolid, Spain;1. CREM UMR 6211, Université de Caen Normandie, France;2. ICN Business School-CEREFIGE, Nancy, France;1. Faculty of Economics, Fukuoka University, 8-19-1, Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka, 814-0180, Japan;2. Faculty of International Politics and Economics, Nishogakusha University, 6-16 Sanbancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-8336, Japan |
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| Abstract: | Using the workweek of capital as a measure of capital utilization, we empirically test whether news shocks actually increase capital utilization. To this end, by estimating a panel VAR on two-digit manufacturing data identifying news shocks as innovations to stock returns orthogonal to the variations in current-period TFP growth, we find the positive response of capital utilization to news shocks. Moreover, to explain the positive response of capital utilization to news shocks in terms of plant-level investment behavior, we propose a heterogeneous plant model that combines the fixed cost of capital adjustment and an endogenous capital utilization choice. With the presence of fixed costs, except for the plants that have recently adjusted capital stock, news shock shortens the effective time horizon of currently installed capital stock and increases capital utilization. When the model economy is calibrated to match the salient features of the plant-level investment rate distribution, the economy generates a news-driven positive response of capital utilization. |
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| Keywords: | News shock Investment Capital utilization Fixed cost of capital adjustment C22 E22 E32 |
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