We propose a theory of security design in financing entrepreneurial production, positing that the investor can acquire costly information on the entrepreneur's project before making the financing decision. When the entrepreneur has enough bargaining power in security design, the optimal security...

We study the optimality of debt through the interaction between security design and information acquisition. An impatient seller designs a security backed by her asset in place and a buyer decides whether to buy the security in order to provide liquidity. Facing different securities, the buyer...

We investigate the impacts of the short-termism on multiple equilibria in a dynamic rational expectations equilibrium model. We find that short-termism is not the cause of equilibrium multiplicity but affects market quality of all equilibria. The liquidity, price efficiency and expected trading...