Bernanke, Ben S.; Gertler, Mark; Gilchrist, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994
Adverse shocks to the economy may be amplified by worsening credit-market conditions-- the financial 'accelerator'. Theoretically, we interpret the financial accelerator as resulting from endogenous changes over the business cycle in the agency costs of lending. An implication of the theory is...