Work in markets with frictions has proliferated since the turn of the millennium, both in the original matching framework of the labor market and importantly in other markets. Petrosky-Nadeau and Wasmer have been among the pioneers in the extensions of this literature to goods and financial markets. The profession should be grateful that we now have in an accessible form a review of more recent contributions to the labor market and, for the first time, a unified framework for the study of frictions in goods and financial markets. Their book is a must-read for everyone working in this area, be it students or academics, or simply for anyone interested to learn the impact of frictions in a variety of market situations.
Christopher A. Pissarides, Regius Professor of Economics, London School of Economics; Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2010
The book by Petrosky-Nadeau and Wasmer is a must-read for all economists interested in search/matching frictions in labor, credit, and goods markets. The approach is both qualitative and quantitative and has a rich set of implications, including financial and fiscal multipliers, the formation of prices and wages, the dynamics of the labor market, efficiency, and policies. It is a transformational book that will have a long-lasting effect on macro and labor economics.
Guillaume Rocheteau, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine; author of Money, Payments, and Liquidity
The search and matching approach pioneered by Diamond, Mortensen, and Pissarides provides a framework to analyze decentralized markets. Most applications so far have focused on the labor market, but recent research emphasizes the importance of similar search frictions in many other areas such as goods and services, housing, and asset markets. This beautiful book, building on published research by the authors, proposes an elegant novel approach to study the joint impact of search frictions in several markets. They show how search frictions have implications for a variety of important macroeconomic issues such as business cycle propagation, financial amplification, or fiscal multipliers.
François Gourio, Senior Economist and Research Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Read this book right after you finish Chris Pissarides's classic Equilibrium Unemployment Theory. Petrosky-Nadeau and Wasmer give a masterly review of the rich literature that has evolved from the basic search-and-matching model that won the Nobel prize in 2010, including their many original contributions in extending the reach of the model.
Robert E. Hall, Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Hoover Senior Fellow; Professor of Economics, Stanford University
This splendid textbook integrates 'multi frictions' in an economy with labor, credit, and goods markets. By combining the latest methodological advances in search and dynamic general equilibrium theories in a rigorous and tractable way, it provides a major contribution to our understanding of how the interactions among frictions in different markets affect business cycles. I bet it will soon become a classic reference for scholars and graduate students working on these topics.
Juan Dolado, Professor of Economics, European University Institute
