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Uploaded: Feb 1, 2019

Jean-Edouard Colliard

Inventory Management, Dealers' Connections, and Prices in OTC Markets

We propose a new model of interdealer trading. Dealers trade together to reduce their inventory holding costs. Core dealers share these costs efficiently and provide liquidity to peripheral dealers, who have heterogeneous access to core dealers. We derive predictions about...

Uploaded: Feb 1, 2019

Andrey Malenko

Asymmetric Information and Security Design under Knightian Uncertainty

We study a signaling game in which an issuer with private information about the distribution of the project’s cash flows designs a security to sell to an uninformed investor to raise financing for the project. The investor faces Knightian uncertainty...

Uploaded: Feb 1, 2019

Jesse Davis

Learning in Financial Markets: Implications for Debt-Equity Conflicts

Despite the empirical prevalence of debt overhang, existing research has found little evidence of risk-shifting. To understand this discrepancy, we augment a traditional feedback model with an important feature: investors’ endogenous learning. We show that more ex-ante inefficient opportunities for...

Uploaded: Jan 7, 2019

Barney Hartman-Glaser | Working Paper No. 00049-00

The Insurance is the Lemon: Failing to Index Contracts

We model the widespread failure of contracts to share risk using available indices. A borrower and lender can share risk by conditioning repayments on an index. The lender has private information about the ability of this index to measure the...

Uploaded: Dec 17, 2018

Edward Van Wesep | Working Paper No. 00048-00

Compensation in High Finance: A Theory of Periodic Labor Markets and Guaranteed Bonuses

We present a general equilibrium model of labor market ows that features a periodic equilibrium in which turnover is high in some periods and low in others. If a firm fi nds itself in a periodic equilibrium, it is optimal...

Uploaded: Sep 21, 2018

Martin Szydlowski | Working Paper No. 00046-00

The Market for Conflicted Advice

We present a model of the market for advice in which advisers have conflicts of
interest and compete for heterogeneous customers through information provision. The
competitive equilibrium features information dispersion and partial disclosure. While
conflicted fees lead...