We augment an otherwise standard business cycle model with a richer government sector, and add a modified cash in advance considerations, and one-period-ahead nominal wage contracts. In particular, the cash in advance constraint of Cooley and Hansen (1989) is extended to include private...

The paper examines that imperfections in financial markets are themselves a source of macroeconomic fluctuations. Small, temporary shocks to technology or income distribution can generate large fluctuations in output and asset prices and spill over to other sectors. The work is based on the...

We augment an otherwise standard business cycle model with a richer government sector, and add a modified Cash-in-Advance (CIA) considerations. In particular, the CIA constraint of Cole (2020) is extended to include private investment and government consumption, and allows a proportion of total...

We augment an otherwise standard business cycle model with a richer government sector, and add a stochastic costly credit production as in Benk et al. (2005), and a modified Cash in Advance (CIA) consideration. In particular, the cash in advance constraint of Cole (2020) is extended to include...

This paper aims to shed light on the importance of health considerations for business cycle fluctuations and the effect of health status on labour productivity and availability of labour input for productive use. To this end, Grossman's (2000) partial‐equilibrium framework with endogenous...