This paper documents that financial crises in emerging countries involve large and persistent losses in labor productivity. It then presents a model which features endogenous TFP growth through the adoption of new varieties of intermediates, and in which an agency problem in financial markets...

This paper develops a small open economy business cycle model with financial intermediaries (banks) in which banks' endogenous leverage constraints are occasionally binding. The model can account for financial crashes and sudden stops as a result of the amplification and asymmetry induced by the...

A macroeconomic model with financial intermediation is developed in which the intermediaries (banks) can issue outside equity as well as short term debt. This makes bank risk exposure an endogenous choice. The goal is to have a model that can not only capture a crisis when banks are highly...