How do firms adjust their balance sheets and reallocate capital stock in response to recurrent productivity or profitability shocks? Why does capital reallocation fluctuate procyclically, while the potential benefits to reallocate appear to be countercyclical? To answer these questions, this paper develops a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model. In the model, firms face idiosyncratic pro...

We use new TRACE data to investigate the liquidity and pricing of agency mortgagebacked pass-through securities. We distinguish between two trading channels -a To-BeAnnounced (TBA) forward delivery market and a specified-pool market. Institutional specified-pool traders in the deep end of the market have easy access to the TBA market, while retail specified-pool traders in the shallow end of th...

After credit risk, liquidity risk is probably the next most important risk faced by the finance industry; and yet the study of liquidity is far less advanced. This may be in part due to the fact that there is no agreed definition of what liquidity is, even in qualitative terms; everyone would agree that the effect of illiquidity is to make it difficult or costly to trade large volumes of the un...

Market liquidity has an immediate impact on the execution of transactions in financial markets. Informed counterparty risk is often priced into market liquidity. This study investigates whether microblogging data, as a non-financial information tool, along with dimensions. The analysis based Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), and from results, we conclude that content pessimistic periods hig...