Introducing Financial Frictions and Unemployment into a Small Open Economy Model

The current …nancial crisis has made it abundantly clear that business cycle modeling no longer can abstract from …nancial factors. It is also becoming increasingly clear that the stylized modeling of labor markets without explicit unemployment that is the current standard approach has its limitations. Some questions which the dominating extant business cycle models are mute on, but that we would like to answer are: How important are …nancial and labor market frictions for the business cycle dynamics of a