We study how the risks to future liquidity flow across corporate bond, Treasury, and stock markets. We document distribution “flight-to-safety” effects: a deterioration in the liquidity of high-yield corporate bonds forecasts an increase in the average liquidity of Treasury securities and a...

We show what the rational inattention model predicts about the treatment effect of information provided during a randomized control trial. This is a non-trivial question because the model implies optimal attention choice before, during, and after an information treatment. The predictions of the...