We study the cyclical implications of credit market imperfections in a dynamic, stochastic general equilibrium model wherein firms face persistent shocks to both aggregate and individual productivity. In our model economy, optimal capital reallocation is distorted by two frictions. First,...

In sum, we find that an unanticipated tightening in borrowing conditions on its own can generate a large recession that is far more persistent than the financial shock itself. Because it causes long-lived disruption in the distribution of capital, and thus production, an episode of tight credit...

An important insight of our analysis is that changes in the persistence and variability of idiosyncratic order costs and productivities alter the distribution of firms over inventory levels. This, in turn, affects the extent and speed of firms' responses to aggregate shocks, and thus the model's...

The typical shape of our model's two-dimensional hazard and its changes over time necessarily depend upon the distributions of menu costs and fixed order costs. We calibrate these distributions using firm-level pricing data (as used by Midrigan (2006)) alongside aggregate data on inventories,...

We study business cycle driven by exogenous changes in total factor productivity and credit shocks. The latter involve changes to the fraction of assets that lenders may seize in the event of default. Following changes in aggregate total factor productivity, we find that our non-contingent loan...

The model we explore is in the spirit of Hopenhayn (1992) and, more directly, an extension of Clementi and Palazzo (2010). Our interest here is to better understand how selection reshapes the dynamics of macro aggregates in a general equilibrium setting with realistic firm-level investment...

We examine a model of lumpy investment wherein establishments face persistent shocks to common and plant-specific productivity, and nonconvex adjustment costs lead them to pursue generalized (S,s) investment rules. We allow persistent heterogeneity in both capital and total factor productivity...

Inflation, Employment and Interest Rates in an Economy with Endogenous Market Segmentation Aubhik Khan, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Julia K. Thomas, University of Minnesota We examine a monetary economy where households incur fixed transactions costs when exchanging bonds and money and,...