Anatomy of a Credit Crunch : From Capital to Labor Markets

Why are financial crises associated with a sustained rise in unemployment? We develop a tractable model with frictions in both credit and labor markets to study the aggregate and micro-level implications of a credit crunch—i.e., a sudden tightening of collateral constraints. When we simulate a credi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Buera, Francisco J., Fattal Jaef, Roberto N., Shin, Yongseok
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20724