This paper considers the implications of habit formation and financial frictions for the propagation of macroeconomic shocks. In a model that is capable of matching asset pricing moments, a short-lived shock that destroys a small fraction of the economy's stock of pledgeable collateral generates...

We study the transmission of liquidity shocks in a dynamic general equilibrium model where firms and households are subject to liquidity risk. The provision of liquidity services is undertaken by financial intermediaries that allocate the stock of liquid asset between the different sectors of...

This article studies monetary policy in a model in which credit constraints are the only source of non-neutralities. I show that sizeable real effects can be obtained in a framework that matches the term premium and reproduces an upward-sloping yield curve. Since in the data inflation...