The most recent financial crisis highlights the importance of event risks and the ensuing market illiquidity and worsening investment opportunity set for optimal portfolio selection. However, the existing portfolio selection literature does not consider the joint impact of these risks. In this...

The impact of transaction costs on asset pricing in equilibrium is rarely studied. We study an equilibrium model with proportional transaction costs where two investors trade in a derivative to hedge non-traded endowments. For any positive transaction cost there always exist no trade equilibria....