Fractional trading (FT)—the ability to trade less than a full share—allows low-budget retail investors to trade high-priced stocks. This paper quantifies FT's impact on retail ownership and trading of high-priced stocks by exploiting its sequential introduction at four brokerage firms since...

This paper explores bond pricing implications of a stochastic endogenous growth model with imperfect price adjustment. In this setting, the production and price-setting decisions of firms drive low-frequency movements in macro growth and inflation rates that are negatively related, as in the...

I propose a model of macroprudential policy interventions in financial markets. I solve a heterogeneous-agent asset pricing model and show that speculation caused by differences in beliefs about expected technology growth increases asset returns volatility and the equity risk premium, reduces...

The past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the economic analysis of networks. This chapter is concerned with the role played by labor and credit networks in shaping economic activity in developing countries. The problem of identifying network effects on economic outcomes is first...

A competitive stock market is embedded into a neoclassical growth economy to analyze the interplay between the acquisition of information about firms, its partial revelation through stock prices, capital allocation and income. The stock market allows investors to share their costly private...

A competitive stock market is embedded into a neoclassical growth economy to analyze the interplay between the acquisition of information about firms, its partial revelation through stock prices, capital allocation and income. The stock market allows investors to share their costly private...

Prior research finds expected returns decrease in firm-level total asset growth. This study shows that external growth, measured as asset growth raised from capital markets, has stronger power than total asset growth predicting the cross section of average returns. External growth subsumes the...

I examine the ability of U.S. equity and bond market illiquidity to predict U.S. macroeconomic variables, between 1946 and 2010. In contrast to existing studies, I allow for illiquidity's predictive ability to be state contingent, using a Markov regime switching model. I uncover strong evidence...

Economic growth is ardently emphasized as a requisite underpinning not only for improving individual income, the standard of living, and a society's infrastructure, but also to attain equitable distribution of necessities, critical resources, and public goods such as education, healthcare, and...