This paper investigates empirically the illiquidity of majority blocks of shares in the context of a search model of block trades. The search model incorporates two aspects of illiquidity, or search frictions. First, upon a liquidity shock, the incumbent blockholders may be forced to sell to a...

We test whether the …´firms systematic equity risk reflects the shareholders´ incen-tives to default strategically on its debt. We use a standard real options model torelate the shareholders´strategic default behavior to frictions in the debt renegotia-tion procedure. We test its predictions...

We use data on price expectations from a survey of randomly sampled smallholder farmers in Mozambique. Across all crops, farmers expect higher prices in the lean season. Yet, farmers report selling mostly within two weeks of harvest at significantly lower prices with liquidity constrained...