This paper develops a model in which two information frictions are embedded into an otherwise conventional neoclassical growth model: an adverse selection problem in the labor market and a costly state verification problem in the credit market. The former allows equilibrium unemployment to arise...

"Currently, Argentina is experiencing what the government describes as a "great depression." Using the "Great Depressions" methodology developed by Cole and Ohanian (1999) and Kehoe and Prescott (2002), we find that the primary determinants of both the boom in Argentina in the 1990s and the...