This paper studies dynamic general equilibrium models where firms trade capital in frictional markets. Gains from trade arise due to ex ante heterogeneity: some firms are better at investment, so they build capital in the primary market; others acquire it in the secondary market. Cases are...

This working paper was written by Chao Gu (University of Missouri), Guido Menzio (New York University and NBER), Randall Wright (Zhejiang University, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER) and Yu Zhu (Bank of Canada).During the financial crisis, relatively centralized markets functioned...

We build models with an interest-bearing central bank digital currency (CBDC) to investigate whether the interest-bearing CBDC can lead to financial disintermediation. Our model of CBDC and banking captures a key feature of an intermediated CBDC system that idle CBDC can be converted into...