This paper presents a simple model of debt contracts in order to analyze the conditions under which domestic residents would choose to currency denomination of debt. In the model, borrowers are producers of non-traded goods and subject to real exchange rate shocks, that constitute the source of...

Unlike outside investors, controlling groups have the option to trade on inside information, and can exercise it at the expense of the former. A simple theoretical model rationalizes the relationship between corporate governance and insider trading decisions through reputational arguments. We...

This paper analyzes a two-good version of the Diamond and Dybvig model in a small open economy. This structure is used to analyze the interaction between banks as liquidity insurers, real exchange rates and monetary policies. It is shown that fixed exchange rates with a Central Bank providing...

I extend the traditional Diamond Dybvig framework with aggregate liquidity shocks to small open economies. Currency board may imply perfect risk sharing (with perfect credit markets), contrary to Chang and Velasco’s …ndings (2000). With interim-date borrowing constraints and …xed exchange...

In this paper I present a model where a financial intermediary decides to open new security markets and offer them to boundedly rational investors. I show first that, if consumers have downward biased priors about payoffs, then no trade in the new securities may be verified. It is shown that no...