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Size Discovery

Uploaded: Jul 6, 2018

Haoxiang Zhu

Size-discovery mechanisms allow large quantities of an asset to be exchanged at a price
that does not respond to price pressure. Primary examples include \workup" in Treasury
markets, \matching sessions" in corporate bond and CDS markets, and block-trading

What is the Optimal Trading Frequency in Financial Markets?

Uploaded: Jul 6, 2018

Songzi Du, Haoxiang Zhu

This paper studies the impact of increasing trading frequency in financial markets on
allocative efficiency. We build and solve a dynamic model of sequential double auctions
in which traders trade strategically with demand schedules. Trading needs are generated

Screening and Adverse Selection in Frictional Markets

Uploaded: Jul 6, 2018

Benjamin Lester, Ali Shourideh, Venky Venkateswaran, Ariel Zetlin-Jones

We incorporate a search-theoretic model of imperfect competition into an otherwise standard model
of asymmetric information with unrestricted contracts. We develop a methodology that allows for
a sharp analytical characterization of the unique equilibrium, and then use this...

Employee Bargaining Power, Inter-Firm Competition, and Equity-Based Compensation

Uploaded: Jul 6, 2018

Francesco Bova, Liyan Yang

We develop a model to illustrate that equity-based compensation for non-executive
employees and product market decisions are related. When the product market is com-
petitive and employees have low bargaining power, the unique equilibrium is for each
...

Commodity Financialization and Information Transmission

Uploaded: Jul 6, 2018

Liyan Yang

We study how commodity financialization affects information transmission and aggre-
gation in a commodity futures market. The trading of financial traders injects both
fundamental information and unrelated noise into the futures price. Thus, price in-
formativeness in...

Information Spillovers in Asset Markets with Correlated Values

Uploaded: Jul 6, 2018

Vladimir Asriyan

We study information spillovers in a dynamic setting with correlated assets owned by privately informed sellers. In the model, a trade of one asset can provide information about the value of other assets. Importantly, the information content of trading behavior...