drying up of liquidity. Financial firms raise short-term debt in order to finance asset purchases. When asset fundamentals … worsen, debt induces firms to risk-shift; this limits their funding liquidity and their ability to roll over debt. Firms may … de-lever by selling assets to better-capitalized firms. Thus the market liquidity of assets depends on the severity of …

This paper studies the interaction between fundamental and liquidity for defaultable corporate bonds that are traded in … liquidity, which depends on both the firm fundamental and the time-to-maturity of the bond. Corporate default decisions interact … with the endogenous secondary market liquidity via the rollover channel. A default-liquidity loop arises: Earlier …

We provide a model that links an asset's market liquidity - i.e., the ease with which it is traded - and traders …' funding liquidity - i.e., the ease with which they can obtain funding. Traders provide market liquidity, and their ability to … are charged, depend on the assets' market liquidity. We show that, under certain conditions, margins are destabilizing and …

We study the interplay between corporate liquidity and asset reallocation opportunities. Our model shows that … associated with the merger. We call these transactions "liquidity mergers," since their main purpose is to reallocate liquidity … to firms that might be otherwise inefficiently terminated. We show that liquidity mergers are more likely to occur when …

question, focusing on liquidity constraints and uninsurable idiosyncratic risk. We consider a search model where agents use … reserves and the response of the economy tends to be larger. In this case, agents expect to be liquidity constrained and, due …

This paper analyzes the role of liquidity constraints in the formation of new entrepreneurial enterprises. The basic … conditional amounts of depreciable assets, ceteris paribus. If so, liquidity constraints are likely to be present. To be … the amount of capital employed. These findings are consistent with the presence of liquidity constraints …

Price-based liquidity metrics are better in 2013-2014 for small trades and large high-yield bond trades, but not for … relative to 2010-2012. This evidence contrasts with the widely-held view among practitioners that liquidity has worsened …-crisis liquidity could be low when markets are stressed. We consider three stress events: extreme VIX increases, extreme bond yield …

We develop a continuous-time model of liquidity provision, in which hedgers can trade multiple risky assets with …