This article documents that government T-bills provided a higher yield to maturity than an equally risky illiquid asset (bank deposits) in Israel. The difference between the return on the liquid asset relative to the illiquid asset is higher in periods of greater uncertainty. This cannot be...

Many financial assets, especially government bonds, are issued by an auction. An important feature of the design is the auction pricing mechanism: uniform versus discriminatory. Theoretical papers do not provide a definite answer regarding the dominance of one type of auction over the other. We...