block trades. The search model incorporates two aspects of illiquidity, or search frictions. First, upon a liquidity shock …This paper investigates empirically the illiquidity of majority blocks of shares in the context of a search model of …, the incumbent blockholders may be forced to sell to a less efficient buyer. Second, a block liquidity sale may occur at a …

: undiversifiable interest rate risk and shocks to aggregate liquidity demand. Mutual funds are inefficient when the economy faces … undiversifiable interest rate risk. However, if only aggregate liquidity demand is stochastic, mutual funds can implement the social … optimum even when liquidity demand is not directly observed. …

I revisit the Diamond-Dybvig model of liquidity insurance in the presence of hidden trades. The key result is that in … this environment deposit-taking banks are not necessary for the efficient provision of liquidity. Mutual funds are … constrained efficient when supplemented with the same government liquidity regulation that is required to make a banking system …

Under Basel III rules, banks become subject to a liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) from 2015 onwards, to promote short …-term resilience. We investigate the effects of such liquidity regulation on bank liquid assets and liabilities. Results indicate co …-integration of liquid assets and liabilities, to maintain a minimum short-term liquidity buffer. Still, microprudential regulation …

This paper builds a consumer search model where the cost of going back to stores already searched is explicitly taken … into account. We show that the optimal search rule under costly recall is very different from the optimal search rule under … perfect recall. Under costly recall, the optimal search behaviour is nonstationary and, moreover, the reservation price is not …

This paper analyses the role of information in the search process. Ibuild a simple model of a good with two random … which neither affect expected utility norits variance. These changes have a great impact on the search behaviour …:the customer may start to search the characteristics and buy the goodeven if she did not do so before. The optimal search rule is …

betweenfirms,thereby lowering prices and increasing economic welfare. This paperpresents a search model that provides a different …, but reduce prices when consumers search intensityis high. These different comparative statics results may explain themixed …