Albuquerque, Rui; Schroth, Enrique - 2011
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 less efficient buyer. Second, a block liquidity sale may occur at a … result absent liquidity shocks. Our results help shed light into the size of the marketability discount, the control discount …