Using an overlapping generations model with liquidity risk, we show that equilibrium aggregate investment and asset prices are cyclical. In an economy with neither a beginning nor an ending date, a stationary equilibrium can be obtained. In a startable equilibrium however, economic activity is...

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...

In this paper we re-examine the risk sharing potential of inter- generational financial intermediaries taking into account their governance structure. We argue that asset buffers of perpetual institutions are limited by the temptation of the living stakeholders to renegotiate contributions and...

In this paper we investigate the risk sharing potential of financial intermediaries in an overlapping generations economy. We find that the intermediaries' allocations are constrained by the temptation of the living to liquidate their intermediary's assets and share the proceeds amongst...

An Endless Leverage Certificate is a novel structured product that has become very popular among European retail investors. ELC-holders have the right to claim the difference between the value of underlying and a contractual financing level at any time during the unlimited life of the contract....

We present an overlapping generations model with spatial separation and agents who face liquidity risk to investigate the widely held belief that financial intermediaries exist because they save on transaction costs. We find that if agents only use a pure exchange mechanism, they engage in...

An Endless Leverage Certificate is a novel structured product that has become very popular among European retail investors. ELC-holders have the right to claim the difference between the value of underlying and a contractual financing level at any time during the unlimited life of the contract....