This thesis is comprised of three articles independent related to macroeconomics. In the first article, we augment a relatively standard dynamic, general equilibrium model with financial frictions, in order to quantify the macroeconomic effects of the credit deepening process observed in Brazil. In the model, a stylized banking sector intermediates credit from patient households to impatient households and firms. The key novelty of the paper is to model the credit constraint faced by (impatient) households as a function of future labor income. In the calibrated model, credit deepening generates only modest above-trend growth in consumption, investment, and GDP. In the second article, we documented that the association between consumption growth and credit expansion is stronger in countries with higher income inequality. We use an incomplete markets model with heterogeneous households, idiosyncratic risk and borrowing constraints to check in which extent this theoretical framework can rationalize the empirical finding. We show that when the source of income inequality comes from households lowest fixed level of human capital, our model can rationalize the empirical evidence. Once other sources of income inequality are considered, the opposite occurs. Finally, in the third article, we use a Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregressive (FAVAR) model to estimate the impact of an international interest rate shock and a commodities price shock on the Peruvian economy. Our results suggest that a positive international interest rate shock has contractive effects, it reduces GDP and inflation rate and generates an exchange rate depreciation, an increase of the domestic interest rate and a reduction of international reserves. In the case of commodity price shock, we find that its effects are consistent with the previous literature in which a positive shock expands GDP, net exports and inflation rate.