More financially constrained firms are riskier and earn higher expected returns than less financially constrained firms, although this effect can be subsumed by size and book-to-market. Further, because the stochastic discount factor makes capital investment more procyclical, financial...

We study the effect of financial constraints on risk and expected returns by extending the investment-based asset pricing framework to incorporate retained earnings, debt, costly external equity, and collateral constraints on debt capacity. Quantitative results show that more financially...

We take a simple q-theory model and ask how well it can explain external financing anomalies, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Our central insight is that optimal investment is an important driving force of these anomalies. The model simultaneously reproduces procyclical equity issuance...

We document a new stylized fact regarding the term-structure of futures volatility. We show thatthe relation between the volatility of futures prices and the slope of the term structure of prices isnon-monotone and has a %u201CV-shape%u201D'. This aspect of the data cannot be generated by basic...

This paper analyzes the equilibrium trading strategies of informed traders in the presence of market closures defined as periodic predictable stops of trading. We construct a dynamic auction model based on rational strategic behavior with asymmetric information across the agents. Empirical...

In this paper we argue that the main empirical findings about firm diversification and performance are actually consistent with a resource-based view of corporate diversification, where firms seek to maximize shareholder value. In our model, diversification is the natural result of firm growth...