Researchers have documented that in the recent financial crisis the large decline in economic activity and credit has been accompanied by a large increase in the dispersion of growth rates across firms. We build a quantitative general equilibrium model in which financial frictions interact with...

The use of competitive search protocols in final goods allows for the specification of models where demand shocks generate propagations that look like productivity shocks. In such environments there is a role for expansion of public expenditures during recessions. We investigate the empirical...