The paper explains why an issuer may wish to raise external capital by selling multiple financial claims that partition its total asset cash flows, rather than a single claim. It is shown that in an asymmetric information environment, the issuer's expected revenue is enhanced by such cash flow...

The industrial structure of an intermediation industry is analysed in brokerage markets, where intermediaries help to reduce search frictions. The aspect of competition in intermediated markets is analysed in an `island economy', in which intermediaries invest in information networks, which...

I contrast equilibria in loan markets under bilateral bank- borrower relationships, in which proprietary technological knowledge of borrowers is not revealed to product-market competitors, with equilibria under multilateral financing which may lead to such knowledge being shared across...

In this article we study different time-series processes that may describe EMS exchange rate patterns. We conclude that conditional heteroskedasticity and discontinuous time paths are prominent features of EMS exchange rates. A combined jump- diffusion-ARCH model can capture these features...

This paper investigates the financial recontracting of firms in workouts and Chapter 11 reorganizations. The terms of recontracting include the medium of exchange used to redeem defaulted securities, the writedown of creditors claims, and deviations from absolute priority experienced by...

We develop a model of banking competition for deposits based on modern financial intermediation theory and industrial organization analysis. The standard demand deposit contract makes banks vulnerable to failure and introduces (endogenous) expectations-based vertical differentiation. A...

This paper studies a dynamic model of an imperfectly competitive bid- ask market with a few large and many small traders. Large traders are risk- averse and exchange a risky asset for hedging purposes. The only private information in the model concerns their hedging demands. We find that large...

This paper examines the formation of option transaction prices in an imperfect market where risk-averse dealers face liquidity and informed traders. Because of market imperfections, trading is costly and arbitrage pricing does not apply. Rather, the transaction prices are related to the dealers'...

Within an optimal contracting framework we analyse some important aspects of debt structure: the number of creditors a company borrows from; the allocation of security interests among creditors; and inter-creditor covenants that govern renegotiation of debt contracts. The key to our analysis is...

In this paper, the relationship between excess returns on foreign exchange investment and inflation differentials and a measure of volatility is investigated for the European Monetary System. A high inflation rate relative to Germany leads to a real appreciation relative to the D-mark, which...