We develop a production based asset pricing model with financially constrained firms to explain the observed high equity premium and low risk-free rate volatility. Investment opportunities are scarce and firms face productivity and liquidity shocks. A negative liquidity shock forces firms to...

We develop a production based asset pricing model with financially constrained firms to explain the observed high equity premium and low risk-free rate volatility. Investment opportunities are scarce and firms face productivity and liquidity shocks. A negative liquidity shock forces firms to...

We study a risk-sharing economy where an arbitrary number of heterogenous agents trades an arbitrary number of risky assets subject to quadratic transaction costs. For linear state dynamics, the forward-backward stochastic differential equations characterizing equilibrium asset prices and...

This paper studies the optimal timing to liquidate credit derivatives in a general intensity-based credit risk model under stochastic interest rate. We incorporate the potential price discrepancy between the market and investors, which is characterized by risk-neutral valuation under different...

We study a continuous-time version of the intermediation model of Grossman and Miller (1988). To wit, we solve for the competitive equilibrium prices at which liquidity takers' demands are absorbed by dealers with quadratic inventory costs, who can in turn gradually transfer these positions to...

In this paper we introduce a generalizable method to estimate daily risk decompositions of default, interest rate, liquidity and excess liquidity from previously simulated reduced form monthly risk decompositions. Our method generates these measures for CMBX. To assess liquidity estimates, we...

It is widely believed in the literature that inventory fluctuations are destabilizing to the economy. This paper re-assesses this view by developing an analytically-tractable general-equilibrium model of inventory dynamics based on a precautionary stockout-avoidance motive. The model's...

The recent financial crisis has shown that liquidity fluctuations in asset markets can have a large impact on the real economy. Many central banks started unconventional monetary policies in 2008, but we still have little understanding of optimal monetary and fiscal policies in such an...

We build a market equilibrium model of loan securitization as an alternative explanation of the cause of the recent Financial Crisis where there was initially deteriorating loan quality but coupled with aggressive securitization, and later investors “flight to quality” and market...

We construct a dynamic model economy in which investors from segmented markets have varying financial asset demands. Intermediaries make arbitrage profits by exploiting the price spreads across markets. Meanwhile, they are required to separately post collateral to support arbitrage trades. We...