TY - JOUR AU - Greenwald,Bruce C. AU - Stiglitz,Joseph E. TI - Imperfect Information, Credit Markets and Unemployment JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 2093 PY - 1988 Y2 - 1988 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2093 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2093.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Bruce C. Greenwald Columbia University 611 Uris Hall New York, NY 10027 E-Mail: bg7@columbia.edu Joseph E. Stiglitz Uris Hall, Columbia University 3022 Broadway, Room 814 New York, NY 10027 Tel: 212/854-0671 Fax: 212/662-8474 E-Mail: jes322@columbia.edu AB - This paper describes how imperfect information in both capital and labor markets can, in a context of maximizing firms and perfectly flexible prices and wages, give rise to cyclical variations in unemployment whose character closely resembles that of observed business cycles. ER -