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A firm's termination leads to bankruptcy costs. This may create an incentive for outside stakeholders or the firm's debtholders to bail out the firm as bankruptcy looms. Because of this implicit guarantee, firm shareholders have an incentive to increase volatility in order to exploit the...
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overshooting and a reduced liquidation value for the distressed trader. Hence, the market is illiquid when liquidity is most needed …
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over faster than domestic assets because the former have desirable liquidity properties, but represent inferior saving …
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market liquidity to vary from `normal' periods, when all assets are fully liquid, to 'illiquidity crises,' when some assets … can only be traded infrequently. The possibility of a liquidity crisis leads to limited arbitrage in normal times …
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monitor markets continuously. We study how limit order markets absorb transient liquidity shocks, which occur when a …
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This paper studies a model where money is valued for the liquidity services it provides in the future. These liquidity … services cannot be provided by any other asset. Changes in expectations of the value of future liquidity services affect the …. Furthermore, shifts between money and other assets that are driven by precautionary liquidity demand make nominal interest rates …
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This paper investigates the consequences of liquidation and reorganization on the allocation and subsequent utilization of assets in bankruptcy. Using the random assignment of judges to bankruptcy cases as a natural experiment that forces some firms into liquidation, we find that the long-run...
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Extreme market outcomes are often followed by a lack of liquidity and a lack of trade. This market collapse seems …-returns distribution. To explore the connection of uncertainty with liquidity, we specify a simple market where a monopolist financial … increase the bid-ask spread and, hence, reduces liquidity. In addition, 'hedge portfolios'' for the market-maker, an important …
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We calculate the socially optimal level of illiquidity in an economy populated by households with taste shocks and present bias (Amador, Werning, and Angeletos 2006). The government chooses mandatory contributions to respective spending/savings accounts, each with a different pre-retirement...
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We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in firms incorporated in that state. This change limited managers'...
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