Liquidity Risk and the Dynamics of Arbitrage Capital
We develop a dynamic model of liquidity provision, in which hedgers can trade multiple risky assets with arbitrageurs. We compute the equilibrium in...
A Proposal for an Open-Source Financial Risk Model
This paper presents a policy proposal for building a new framework for gathering, measuring and disclosing financial risk information in the global...
Risk Models-at-Risk
The experience from the global financial crisis has raised serious concerns about the accuracy of standard risk measures as tools for the...
Rights offerings, trading, and regulation: A global perspective
We study rights offerings using a sample of 8,238 rights offers announced during 1995-2008 in 69 countries. Although shareholders prefer having the...
Debt Maturity and the Liquidity of Secondary Debt Markets
We develop an equilibrium model of debt maturity choice of firms, in the presence of fixed issuance costs in primary debt markets, and an over-the...
Capital Structure and Investment Dynamics with Fire Sales
We study a general equilibrium model in which firms choose their capital structure optimally, trading off the tax advantages of debt against the risk...
Walrasian Foundations for Equilibria in Segmented Markets
We study an economy with segmented financial markets and strategic arbitrageurs who link these markets. We show that the equilibrium of the arbitraged...
When to sell Apple and the NASDAQ? Trading bubbles with a stochastic disorder model
In this paper, the authors apply a continuous time stochastic process model developed by Shiryaev and Zhutlukhin for optimal stopping of random price...
Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance
This paper estimates the effects of Say-on-Pay (SoP); a policy that increases shareholder "voice" by providing shareholders with a regular vote on...
A Theory of the Evolution of Derivatives Markets
This paper develops a theory of the opening and dynamic development of a futures market with competing exchanges. The optimal contract design involves...
The effect of monitoring on CEO pay practices in a matching equilibrium
We present a model of efficient contracting with endogenous matching and limited monitoring in which firms compete for CEOs. The model explains the...
Mark-to-Market Accounting and Systemic Risk: Evidence from the Insurance Industry
One of the most contentious issues raised during the recent crisis has been the potentially exacerbating role played by mark-to-market accounting...
Market Quality and Contagion in Fragmented Markets
Financial market liquidity has become increasingly fragmented across multiple trading platforms. We propose an intuitive welfare-based market quality...
Cyclical Adjustment of Capital Requirements: A Simple Framework
We present a model of an economy with heterogeneous banks that may be funded with uninsured deposits and equity capital. Capital serves to ameliorate...
Procyclical Leverage and Value-at-Risk
The availability of credit varies over the business cycle through shifts in the leverage of financial intermediaries. Empirically, we find that...
Mortgage Hedging in Fixed Income Markets
We study the feedback from hedging mortgage portfolios on the level and volatility of interest rates. We incorporate the supply shocks resulting from...