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The relationship of stock returns and trading volume is the focus of much recent interest. I examine an economic model of a rational trader who operates in a market with transactions costs and noise trading. The level of trading affects the rational trader’s marginal cost of transacting; as a...
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Long-term relationships between business firms and investment banks are pervasive in developed security markets and there is evidence that better monitoring and information result from these relationships. Therefore, security markets should allocate resources better when an investment banking...
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This paper studies optimal monetary policy in a two-sector small open economy model under segmented asset markets and sticky prices. We solve the Ramsey problem under full commitment, and characterize the optimal monetary policy in a calibrated version of the model. The findings of the paper are...
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Prices in futures markets and option markets reflect expectations about future price movements in spot markets, but these prices can also be influenced by risk premia. Futures and forward prices are sometimes interpreted as market expectations for future spot prices, and option prices are used...
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We study the impact of the COVID-19 recession on capital structure of publicly listed U.S. firms. Our estimates suggest leverage (Net Debt/Asset) decreased by 5.3 percentage points from the pre-shock mean of 19.6 percent, while debt maturity increased moderately. This de-leveraging effect is...
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This paper develops a small open economy model where global and domestic liquidity is intermediated to the corporate … to entrepreneurs and commercial banks intermediate domestic savings to liquidity constrained final good producers. Both … dynamics, global liquidity spillovers, domestic money market pressures, and macrofinancial linkages through which shocks …
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This paper studies a novel type of misallocation of credit between investments of varying liquidity. One type of …-term welfare and output in a constrained inefficient equilibrium if it raises the liquidity of the liquid type. I show a maximum …
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In an environment characterized by weak contractual enforcement, sovereign lenders can enhance the likelihood of repayment by making their claims more difficult to restructure ex post. We show however, that competition for repayment among lenders may result in a sovereign debt that is...
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This paper develops a model that focuses on the interaction of liquidity creation by financial intermediaries with …
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