Financial Frictions and Sources of Business Cycle /

This paper estimates a New Keynesian DSGE model with an explicit financial intermediary sector. Having measures of financial stress, such as the spread between lending and borrowing, enables the model to capture the impact of the financial crisis in a more direct and efficient way. The model fits US...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taheri Sanjani, Marzie
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/194
Online Access:Full text available on IMF