Gale, Douglas; Gottardi, Piero - In: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 3 (2011) 2, pp. 1-37
We study a competitive model in which market incompleteness implies that debt-financed firms may default in some states of nature, and default may lead to the sale of the firms' assets at fire sale prices when a finance constraint is binding. The anticipation of such "losses" alone may distort...