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We perform a comprehensive test of order choice theory from a sample period when the NYSE trades in decimals and allows automatic executions. We analyze the decision to submit or cancel an order or to take no action. For submitted orders we distinguish order type (market vs. limit), order side...
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' 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 …
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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 …
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We study a dynamic general equilibrium model in which firms choose their investment level and their capital structure, trading off the tax advantages of debt against the risk of costly default. The costs of bankruptcy are endogenously determined, as bankrupt firms are forced to liquidate their...
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The financial crisis has generated a deep revision of the regulation of securities and derivatives markets. In this paper, we critically examine the extent to which current reforms, such as the European Market Infrastructure Regulation and the proposed new Markets in Financial Instruments...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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imperfections on liquidity. Asset owners seek to obtain liquidity by selling their claims on future cash-flows, on which they have … private information. Our analysis encompasses both the cases of competitive and monopolistic liquidity supply. In the optimal … a monopolistic liquidity supplier to exclude them from trade in order to better extract rents from issuers with low cash-flows. …
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debt markets, and an over-the-counter secondary debt market with search frictions. Liquidity in this market is related to …
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