Geanakoplos, John - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2001
The possibility of default limits available liquidity. If the potential default draws nearer, a liquidity crisis may … ensue, causing a crash in asset prices, even if the probability of default barely changes, and even if no defaults … subsequently materialize. Introducing default and limited collateral into general equilibrium theory (GE) allows for a theory of …