In this paper we develop a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous, long-lived firms where financial factors play an important role in their production and investment decisions. When the economy is hit by monetary shocks, the response of small and large firms differs substantially, with...

The specific contribution of endogenous growth models to RBC literature remains unclear since, although the implication of assuming endogenous growth for explaining aggregate fluctuations has already been considered for instance by Gomme (1993) and Ozlu (1996), these papers introduce additional...