Assess graduate students' understanding of monetary policy transmission channels (interest-rate, bank-lending/credit supply, balance-sheet/cash-flow, asset-price, exchange-rate, and expectation channels) and their effects on firm-level investment decisions; require explanation of mechanisms, implications for CAPEX and investment timing across heterogeneous firms (size, liquidity, leverage), role of financing constraints and Tobin's q, and basic empirical identification strategies and evidence interpretation.