This paper addresses the positive implications of indexing risky debt to observable aggregate conditions. These issues are pursued within the context of the celebrated financial accelerator model of Bernanke, Gertler and Gilchrist (1999). The principal conclusions include: (1) the estimated...

This paper studies the relative importance of including trend shocks and financial frictions whwn characterizing economic flutuations in a set of 12 emerging developed small open economies. We find that trend shocks, captured by permanet technology innovations, are relatively more important than...

Is a real business cycle model extended with non-stationary technology shocks able to describe small open economies or are credit market imperfections necessary in addition? This study addresses this question by providing evidence of the relative ability of a model with and without financial...