We develop a stochastic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms which can default on their debt obligations. We calibrate the model to match the slient facts about the business cycle and show how it can be used to simultaneously match a number of stylized facts about both credit and...

reasonable amount of aggregate volatility.

We examine the effects of long-lived nominal debt contracts in a quantitative business cycle model with financial frictions. In our setting, as in reality, firms fund themselves with a mix of nominal defaultable debt and equity securities to issue in every period. Debt is priced fairly taking...

We develop a tractable general equilibrium model that captures the interplay between nominal long-term corporate debt, inflation, and real aggregates. We show that unanticipated inflation changes the real burden of debt and, more significantly, leads to a debt overhang that distorts future...