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Typical models of bankruptcy and collateral rely on incomplete asset markets. In fact, bankruptcy and collateral add contingencies to asset markets. In some models, these contingencies can be used by consumers to achieve the same equilibrium allocations as in models with complete markets. In...
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stochastic mechanism. We explore the implications for pricing stock, index and foreign currency options of the assumption that … accounting for heterogeneous information arrival may minimize the ubiquitous pricing bias 'smile-effect' of standard option … pricing models. We propose a conceptually simple but numerically intensive maximum likelihood estimator of the parameters of a …
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We develop a model of financially constrained arbitrage, and use it to study the dynamics of arbitrage capital … the dynamics of arbitrage activity are self-correcting: following a shock that depletes arbitrage capital, profitability … trades, although arbitrageurs cut their positions in these trades the least. When arbitrage capital is more mobile across …
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We study the short- and long-run effects of financial integration in emerging economies using a two-sector model with a collateral constraint on external debt and trading costs incurred by foreign investors. The probability of a financial crisis displays overshooting: It rises sharply initially...
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Pecuniary externalities have regained the interest of researchers as they seek policy interventions and regulations to remedy externality-induced distortions, e.g., balance sheet effects, amplifiers and fire sales. In this paper we go back to first principles and show how to design financial...
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This paper studies a competitive general equilibrium model with default and endogenous collateralized contracts. The possibility of trade in spot markets creates externalities, as spot prices and the bindingness of collateral constraints interact. We propose a market based solution which...
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International financial integration helps to diversify risk but also may increase the trans- mission of crises across countries. We provide a quantitative analysis of this trade-off in a two-country general equilibrium model with endogenous portfolio choice and collateral con- straints....
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We present evidence that shocks to household consumption growth are negatively skewed, persistent, countercyclical, and play a major role in driving asset prices. We construct a parsimonious model where heterogeneous households have recursive preferences and a single state variable drives the...
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This paper shows that the quantitative predictions of an equilibrium asset pricing model with financial frictions are …
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We analyze a Bewley-Huggett-Aiyagari incomplete-markets model with labor-market frictions. Consumers are subject to idiosyncratic employment shocks against which they cannot insure directly. The labor market has a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides structure: firms enter by posting vacancies and match...
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