We examine the dynamic effects of TFP news shocks in context frictions financial markets. document two new facts. First, a shock to future generates significant decline credit spread indicators along with robust improvement supply indicators. Second, we establish tight link between and that explain majority un-forecastable movements A DSGE model enriched sector Gertler-Kiyotaki-Karadi type very...

Financial frictions affect the way in which different macroeconomic series respond to a monetary policy shock. We embed the financial accelerator of Bernanke, Gertler and Gilchrist (1999) into a medium-scale DSGE model and evaluate the relative importance of financial frictions in explaining monetary transmission. Specifically, we apply minimum distance estimation based on impulse responses for...

This paper provides a theoretical model of an open economy credit channel including currency mismatch and financial fragility where exporting firms have access to international credit but non-exporting firms do not. The impact of the crisis is predicted to be dramatically different for exporters/non-exporters. We examine firms’ access to external finance in four Asian economies after 1997 using...

We find that between 20 and 25 percent of the negative covariance between excess returns and inflation is explained by shocks to monetary policy variables. The finding is robust to changes in the monetary policy rule that have occured during the 1966-1998 period. The result contradicts the theory that money supply shocks induce a positive correlation between inflation and returns. Our findings ...

Trading frictions in financial markets affect more long-term than short-term bonds, generating an upward-sloping yield curve. Long-term financing is expensive economies with higher trading so firms choose to borrow and invest shorter horizons lower productivity projects. The theory guides a new identification of the slope liquidity spread data. We measure calibrate model for United States, coun...