We develop a model of a two-sided asset market in which trades are intermediated by dealers and are bilateral. Dealers compete to attract order flow by posting the terms at which they execute trades-- which can include prices, quantities, and execution speed--and investors direct their orders...

Estimation of benchmark yield curve in developing markets is often influenced by liquidity concentration. Based on an affine term structure model, we develop a long run liquidity weighted fitting method to address the trading concentration phenomenon arising from horizon-induced clientele...

The paper examines the risk-return tradeoff an individual or trustee who decides to liquidate a position in an asset. Converting concentrated wealth into cash is not without risk as it may not be instantaneous. Just like the selection of an optimal asset mix along the 'efficient frontier', the...

Many financing choices of US corporations remain puzzling even after accounting for standard determinants such as taxes, bankruptcy costs, and asymmetric information. We propose that managerial beliefs help to explain the remaining variation across and within firms, including variation in debt...

Informal lending and savings institutions exist around the world, and often include regular door-to-door deposit collection of cash. Some banks have adopted similar services in order to expand access to banking services in areas that lack physical branches. Using a randomized control trial, we...

The effect of incomplete information on the term structure of interest rates is examined in the framework of a pure exchange economy under uncertainty where aggregate output grows at a constant rate. If the growth rate is known, the term structure is flat. In contrast, the term structure is a...

We study a class of stochastic optimization models of expected utility in markets with stochastically changing investment opportunities. The prices of the primitive assets are modelled as diffusion processes whose coefficients evolve according to correlated diffusion factors. Under certain...

We study the behavior of the optimal portfolio policy of a long-run investor in markets with stationary investment opportunity sets. We provide conditions on the utility function, for large wealth levels, which are sufficient for the optimal portfolio policy to approximate, as the trading...

The paper studies the impact of the portfolio constraint imposed by the consumption demand for housing (the quot;housing constraintquot;) on the household's optimal holdings of financial assets. Since the ratio of housing to net worth declines as the household accumulates wealth, the housing...