This paper studies the impact that pre-IPO cash flow volatility has on the initial and long-term value of a publicly traded firm. From the perspective of corporate risk management theory, higher cash flow volatility should reduce value in the form of higher borrowing costs, reduced investment,...

We develop a rational theory of liquidity sentiments in which the market outcome in any given period depends on agents' expectations about market conditions in future periods. Our theory is based on the interaction between adverse selection and resale considerations giving rise to an...

This paper provides an information-based theory of tranching, a practice in which sellers slice a financial asset into debt securities with different seniority. I use the price posting framework to analyze asset-backed security markets with adverse selection and find that tranching is a robust...

I study a hybrid over-the-counter (OTC) market structure in which traders have the choice of obtaining an asset from dealers either in a bilateral market or on an electronic trading platform. In a hybrid market (HM), turnover is higher and traders are better off than in a pure bilateral market...

I examine the possibility of information-based trading in a multiperiod consumption setting. I develop a necessary and sufficient condition for trade to occur. Intertemporal substitution introduces a desire to correlate current consumption with future aggregate shocks. When agents have...

We propose the Volume Coefficient of Variation (VCV), the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean of trading volume, as a new and easily computable measure of information asymmetry in security markets. We use a microstructure model to demonstrate that VCV is strictly increasing in the...

I analyze a dynamic model of over-the-counter asset sales in which a manager receives stock-sensitive compensation and a transaction conveys information about the firm's value. I examine how market response to an asset sale feeds back to the manager's decision on the timing and the price of the...

We derive equilibrium asset prices when fund managers deviate from benchmark indices to exploit noise-trader induced distortions but fund investors constrain these deviations. Because constraints force managers to buy assets that they underweight when these assets appreciate, overvalued assets...

Traders differ in speed and their speed differences matter. I model strategic interactions induced when high frequency traders (HFTs) have different speeds in an extended Kyle (1985) framework. HFTs are assumed to anticipate incoming orders and trade rapidly to exploit normal-speed traders'...

We examine the relation between firm reputation and the cost of debt financing. We posit that corporate reputation represents “soft information” not captured by balance sheet variables, which is nonetheless valuable to lenders. Using Fortune magazine's survey of company reputation while...