This paper examines the optimal allocation of risk in an overlapping-generations economy. It compares the allocation of … risk the economy reaches naturally to the allocation that would be reached if generations behind a Rawlsian 'veil of … ignorance' could share risk with one another through complete Arrow-Debreu contingent-claims markets. The paper then examines …

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 …

reduce bond yields. The residual bond-supply to traders is not fully predictable, and this supply-risk adds between 10 and 40 …

liquidity effects. This paper discusses the basic frictions and mechanisms underlying this new class of models and investigates … long-lasting, quantitatively significant liquidity effects, as well as persistent increases in aggregate economic activity …

Treasury bills and other near-money assets provide owners with liquidity service benefits that are reflected in prices … in the form of a liquidity premium. I relate time variation in this liquidity premium to changes in the opportunity cost … of money: The liquidity service benefits of near-money assets are more valuable when short-term interest rates are high …

after a once and for all increase in liquidity. The gradual propagation mechanism produced by our model is novel in the … literature. We provide an analytical characterization of this mechanism, showing that the magnitude of the liquidity effect on …