This paper introduces agent heterogeneity, liquidity, and endogenous default to a DSGE framework. Our model allows for … the economy. Due to liquidity and endogenous default, the transmission mechanism of shocks is well defined, and their …

the international allocation of economic activity. Private assets’ liquidity properties - their usefulness as collateral … entry, production, aggregate productivity, and total market capitalization. In a closed economy, the liquidity market …, cross-country differences in financial development|as measured by the degree of liquidity of a country’s assets - generate …

Traditionally, aggregate liquidity shocks are modelled as exogenous events. Extending our previous work (Cao & Illing …, 2008), this paper analyses the adequate policy response to endogenous systemic liquidity risk. We analyse the feedback … between lender of last resort policy and incentives of private banks, determining the aggregate amount of liquidity available …