A large number of financial assets are traded in both exchanges and over-the-counter markets (i.e., centralized and decentralized markets, CM and DM hereafter, respectively). Moreover, as documented by Biais and Green (2019), the 20th century has witnessed a secular migration of asset trade from...

We show the competing effects of a housing bubble on the real economy by developing a two-sector dynamic model with housing production. On the one hand, firms can sell or collateralize their houses to obtain financing, so a housing bubble helps firms obtain credit to finance their investment and...