' trading behaviors, and the liquidity level in an inter-temporal cap{and{trade market using laboratory experiments. The …. The second experiment shows that the presence of non-regulated companies adds liquidity to the market and does not … increase price volatility. The last experiment enables us to investigate the impact of the presence of cash-settled options …

liquidate their assets, resulting in a fire sale if there is insufficient liquidity in the market. When the corporate income tax …. We also show that introducing more liquidity into the system can be counter-productive: although it reduces the severity …

Market liquidity is typically characterized by a number of ad hoc metrics, such as depth, volume, bid-ask spreads etc … grounds. In this paper we propose a welfare-based denition of liquidity and characterize its relationship to the usual proxies … intermediaries pursue prot opportunities by providing intermediation services (i.e. "liquidity") in exchange for an endogenous fee …

identical, implying that the concentration of liquidity in one asset is socially desirable. At the same time, too many buyers …

argument for the existence of safe harbours is liquidity in the financial market. Safe harbour rules do away with a number of … legal concepts, notably those attached to traditional security, and thereby allow for an exponentiation of liquidity … liquidity. To the extent that safe harbours accelerate contagion in terms of crisis, which in principle is a valid argument …

Market liquidity is typically characterized by a number of ad hoc metrics, such as depth (or market impact), volume … the existing metrics on welfare grounds. In this paper we propose a welfare-based denition of liquidity and characterize … intermedia- tion services (i.e. \liquidity") in exchange for an endogenous fee. Our model is well suited to study the contagion …

that they must deliver the asset they borrowed. As a result, that asset enjoys both greater liquidity, measured by search … times, and a higher lending fee ("specialness"). Liquidity and specialness translate into price premia that are consistent …

We provide a model that links an asset's market liquidity; i.e., the ease with which it is traded; and traders' funding … liquidity, i.e. the ease with which they can obtain funding. Traders provide market liquidity, and their ability to do so …, depend on the assets' market liquidity. We show that, under certain conditions, margins are destabilizing and market …