We examine if the sequence of stock market liberalization events matters for corporate financing choices. We contrast firms who attain ‘investable' status through domestic reforms with those who do so by issuing American Depository Receipt programs. We find that the first liberalization event...

We model irrational investors who can impact prices to cause predictability in returns and rational investors who are wealth-constrained in their attempts to arbitrage mispricing. We show that rational investors relax wealth constraints by forming financial intermediaries which leverage the...

Originators produce higher quality assets at a private cost. These assets can either be bought by informed intermediaries or sold in a pool with low quality assets. Savings gluts diminish origination incentives because they compress the spread between the price paid for high quality assets and...