Long-Term Finance and Investment with Frictional Asset Markets

Long-Term Finance and Investment with Frictional Asset Markets

This paper develops a theory of investment and maturity choices and studies its implications for the macroeconomy. The novel ingredient is an explicit secondary market with trading frictions which leads to a liquidity spread which increases with maturity and generates an upward sloping yield curve. As a result, trading frictions induce firms to borrow and invest at shorter horizons than in a fr...

Liquidity in Frictional Asset Markets

The Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing with either Frictionless or Frictional Security Markets

This paper studies asset pricing in arbitrage-free financial markets in general state space (both for frictionless market and for market with transaction cost). The mathematical formulation is based on a locally convex topological space for weakly arbitrage-free securities’ structure and a separable Banach space for strictly arbitragefree securities’ structure. We establish, for these two types...

Price Patterns in Experimental Asset Markets with Long Horizon

We investigate the generality of the bubble and crash price pattern observed in previous asset market experiments. The deviation of prices from fundamental values can be explained by either a failure of subjects to backward induct, a learning effect, or some other explanation. We conduct experiments with a longer horizon – 200 periods – to find a possible reason for the timing of the crash. If ...

Optimal Long Term Investment Model with Memory

We consider a financial market model driven by an Rn-valued Gaussian process with stationary increments which is different from Brownian motion. This driving noise process consists of n independent components, and each component has memory described by two parameters. For this market model, we explicitly solve optimal investment problems. These include (i) Merton’s portfolio optimization proble...