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This paper studies the welfare properties of competitive equilibria in an economy with financial frictions hit by aggregate shocks. In particular, it shows that competitive financial contracts can result in excessive borrowing ex ante and excessive volatility ex post. Even though, from a...
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We develop a model of investment with financial constraints and use it to investigate the relation between investment … between q and investment, relative to the frictionless benchmark. We present a calibrated version of the model, which, due to … this effect, generates realistic correlations between investment, q, and cash flow …
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The arrival of new, unfamiliar, investment opportunities is often associated with "exuberant" movements in asset prices … signals about the profitability of the new investment opportunities, and vice versa. In this paper, we study how such …
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