Taming the finance monster
The best way to resolve global financial instability is for the owners of capital to assert themselves, with sovereign funds well positioned to take...
Market Liquidity - Theory and Empirical Evidence
In this paper we survey the theoretical and empirical literature on market liquidity. We organize both literatures around three basic questions: (a)...
Liquidity and Asset Returns under Asymmetric Information and Imperfect Competition
We analyze how asymmetric information and imperfect competition affect liquidity and asset prices. Our model has three periods: agents are identical...
Liquidity and asset returns under asymmetric information and imperfect competition
Review of Financial Studies, 25 (5). pp. 1339-1365.
New light on choice of investment strategy
According to classical economics, there are no gains to be made in an efficient market. Yet markets are often far from efficient and the gains are...
Making Europe Safer
Open letter by the international Euro-nomics academic group (www.euro-nomics.com), composed of Markus Brunnermeier, Luis Garicano, Philip R. Lane...
Preferred-Habitat Investors and the US Term Structure of Real Rates
We estimate structurally a model of the term structure of interest rates that is consistent with no arbitrage but allows for demand pressures. The...
Bond Market Clienteles, the Yield Curve and the Optimal Maturity Structure of Government Debt
We propose a clientele-based model of the yield curve and optimal maturity structure of government debt. Clienteles are generations of agents at...
Fund Flows and Asset Prices: A Baseline Model
We study flows between investment funds and their effects on asset prices in a simple twoperiod version of Vayanos and Woolley (2010, VW). As in VW...
An institutional theory of momentum and reversal
We propose a rational theory of momentum and reversal based on delegated portfolio management. Flows between investment funds are triggered by changes...
Limits of Arbitrage: The State of the Theory
We survey theoretical developments in the literature on the limits of arbitrage. This literature investigates how costs faced by arbitrageurs can...
Fund Flows and Asset Prices: A Baseline Model
We study flows between investment funds and their effects on asset prices in a simple two-period version of Vayanos and Woolley (2010, VW). As in VW...
A Preferred-Habitat Model of the Term Structure of Interest Rates
We model the term structure of interest rates as resulting from the interaction between investor clienteles with preferences for specific maturities...
Capital Market Theory after the Efficient Market Hypothesis
Have capital market booms and crashes discredited the efficient market hypothesis? This column says yes and suggests a new model that explains asset...
Liquidity and Asset Prices A Unified Framework
We examine how liquidity and asset prices are affected by the following market imperfections: asymmetric information, participation costs, transaction...
An institutional theory of momentum and reversal
We propose a rational theory of momentum and reversal based on delegated portfolio management. Flows between investment funds are triggered by changes...
