The paper develops a model of firm's investment under uncertainty with financial market imperfections and analyzes the effects of financial constraints on firm's investment. Firm's investment is an increasing function of the firm's marginal q, however the investment function is characterized by...

This paper endogenizes the borrowing constraints on capital holdings in an infinite horizon incomplete markets model with production and idiosyncratic risk. In particular, it assumes that households can break their trading arrangements by going into financial autarky, in which case they are...

This paper studies the effects that borrowing constraints have on savings and growth and argues that, though they increase savings, their effect on growth is ambiguous. Empirical evidence on the extent of borrowing constraints as well as savings, investment, human capital accumulation and growth...

Financially constrained firms can use hedging to lower the risk of financial distress. However, spending scarce resources on hedging exacerbates the underinvestment problem of these firms. We develop a model in which this cost of hedging is traded off against a reduction in the risk of being...

This paper studies economies with complete markets where there is positive default on consumer debt. In a simple tractable two-period model, households can default partially, at a finite punishment cost, and competitive intermediaries price loans of different sizes separately. This environment...