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Is greater trading liquidity good or bad for corporate governance? We address this question both theoretically and … information concerns her own plans for taking an active role in governance. We show that an increase in the liquidity of the firm …'s stock increases the likelihood of the large investor 'taking the Wall Street walk.' Thus, higher liquidity is harmful for …
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liquidity by quickly turning stocks into cash. We propose a trading model in which these two roles are endogenously related …: more intensive use of stocks for liquidity affects both the information and the noise about fundamentals contained in … banking system has trouble providing liquidity. We incorporate this module into a dynamic general equilibrium model to study …
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the international liquidity management aspect of sterilization over the traditional monetary one, a re-focus that seems … liquidity management issues more generally …
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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 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 …
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dire consequences in terms of under-provision of market liquidity, has been repeatedly raised. This paper presents … systematic evidence from four different estimation strategies of the absence of breakpoints in market liquidity for fixed …-income asset classes and across multiple liquidity measures, with special attention given to the corporate bond market. The …
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national best bid and offer. Enhanced order flow to dark venues reduces price competition by exchange liquidity providers …
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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 …
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It is widely believed that the stock-market oriented US financial system forces corporate managers to behave myopically relative to their Japanese counterparts, who operate in a bank-based system. We hypothesize that if US firms are more myopic than Japanese firms, then episodes of financial...
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We study the effect of real asset liquidity on a firm's cost of capital. We find an aggregate asset-liquidity discount … in firms' cost of capital that is strongly counter-cyclical. At the firm-level we find that asset liquidity affects firms … periods of high asset liquidity have lower cost of capital. This effect is stronger when the asset liquidity is provided by …
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