This paper examines portfolios within the framework of a dynamic asset-pricingmodel when investors can trade equity assets as well as bonds of many different matu-rities. We specify the model so that investors have demand for both a risky and a safeincome stream. We characterize the resulting...

In OTC bond markets many investors face high costs of trade, and these costs appear to berelated to the lack of price transparency. We study the consequences this has for efficient pricediscovery. Prices of municipal bonds react sluggishly to macroeconomic news. Yield spreads overtreasuries...