Taylor's [Taylor, J. (2003). Risk-taking behavior in mutual fund tournaments, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation 50, 373-383] extension of the tournament model of Brown et al. [Brown, K. C., Harlow, W. V., Starks, L. T. (1996). Of tournaments and temptations: An analysis of managerial...

Flight-to-quality during times of financial crisis is a feature of financial markets. Here, a simple strategic model demonstrates that some preference asymmetry is sufficient to generate endogenous flight-to-quality from an emerging stock market to US Treasury bonds. The empirical evidence from...