We show that binomial economies with financial assets are an informative and tractable model to study endogenous leverage and collateral equilibrium: endogenous leverage can be highly volatile, but it is always easy to compute. The possibility of default can have a dramatic effect on...

We show that binomial economies with financial assets are an informative and tractable model to study endogenous leverage and collateral equilibrium: endogenous leverage can be highly volatile, but it is always easy to compute. The possibility of default can have a dramatic effect on...

We introduce a leverage-constrained financial intermediaries and market incompleteness into a three-period pure exchange economy with ex ante homogeneous households. Market incompleteness generates ex post heterogeneity in households' consumption and wealth distributions and arbitrage...

Recently Andersen and Bondarenko posted a paper on SSRN with the title “VPIN and the Flash Crash” which is essentially a comment on our earlier work on the measure of order toxicity, VPIN. Andersen and Bondarenko dispute our empirical findings and argue that VPIN essentially doesn't work. We...

Multiple empirical studies have shown that Order Flow Imbalance has predictive power over the trading range.The PIN Theory (Easley et al. [1996]) reveals the Microstructure mechanism by which:– Market Makers adjust their trading range to avoid being adversely selected by Informed Traders.–...

This paper reconsiders the predictions of the standard option pricing models in the context of incomplete markets. We relax the completeness assumption of the Black-Scholes (1973) model and as an immediate consequence we can no longer construct a replicating portfolio to price the option....

Wary consumers overlook gains but not losses in remote sets of dates or states. As preferences are upper but not lower, Mackey semi-continuous, Bewleyʼs (1972) [4] result on existence of equilibrium whose prices are not necessarily countably additive holds. Wariness is related to lack of myopia...

This paper considers pricing rules of single-period securities markets with finitely many states and without arbitrage opportunities. Our main result characterize those pricing rules C that are super-replication prices of a frictionless incomplete asset structure. This characterization relies on...

We study a simple static economy with collateralized loan contracts and an incomplete asset market. We study whether economic forces operate to keep asset price equal to fundamentals in this economy. We find that asset prices may be higher than the valuation of any agent in the economy, i.e.,...