their productivity and net worth and face collateral constraints that cause capital misallocation. TFP endogenously depends … equilibrium, general-equilibrium effects overturn this result: a monetary expansion increases the investment of high-productivity … firms relatively more than that of low-productivity ones, crowding out the latter and increasing TFP. We provide empirical …

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 …

This paper studies banks' liquidity provision in the Lagos and Wright model of monetary exchanges. With aggregate …

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 …

reserves (a liquidity crisis) occurs endogenously. We show that discount window lending by the LLR is welfare-improving but … reduces banks' ex-ante incentive to hold monetary reserves, which increases the probability of a liquidity crisis, and can …