Pedersen, Lasse; Duffie, Darrell; Garleanu, Nicolae - Econometric Society - 2004
We study the impact on asset prices of illiquidity associated with search and bargaining in an economy in which agents … can trade only when they find each other. Marketmakers' prices are higher and bid-ask spreads are lower if investors can … find each other more easily. Prices become Walrasian as investors' or marketmakers' search intensities get large …