We investigate the growth-finance nexus in an endogenous growth model with search frictions and congestion effects in credit and innovation markets. The interplay between these two frictions generates a nonlinear relationship between finance and growth. Financial development eases the financing...

Recent work on money and endogenous growth finds modest welfare costs of inflation. Furthermore, high inflation reduces the growth rate. The author presents a monetary endogenous growth model with labor market frictions in the form of search unemployment which is calibrated for the US economy....