The Great Recession has been characterised by the two stylized facts: the buildup of leverage in the household sector in the period preceding the recession and a protracted economic recovery that followed. We attempt to explain these two facts as an information friction, whereby agents are...

We attempt to explain two stylized facts of the Great Recession, namely the build-up of high leverage in the household sector in the boom phase, deep busts and protracted recovery as rare systemic events. We extend Boz and Mendoza (2014) by explicitly modeling the credit markets and modifying...

The Great Recession has been characterised by the two stylized facts: the buildup of leverage in the household sector in the period preceding the recession and a protracted economic recovery that followed. We attempt to explain these two facts as an information friction, whereby agents are...