This paper considers an asset market subject to search frictions, where there are adjustment costs to the entry rate of buyers. An implication is that even in asset markets where the search frictions are very small, asset prices respond to changes in liquidity. Another implication is that asset liquidity is a state variable, the dynamics of which are analyzed. I demonstrate that transition path...

Business groups play a critical role in the internationalization of Chinese firms, but empirical efforts on this topic are limited. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the impacts of group-specific attributes on the pursuit of different internationalization strategies. Our findings from 219 Chinese business group affiliates show that horizontal linkages among group affiliates are more...

A new general model for asset returns is studied in the framework of the Fractal Market Hypothesis (FMH). To accomodate markets with arbitrage opportunities it concerns capital market systems in which the Conditionally Exponential Dependence (CED) property can be attached to each investor on the market. Emploing the limit theorem for the CED systems, the universal characteristics for the distri...

We analyze how the entry of less informed participants in a market for a risky asset affects the volatility of the price of the asset. In an endogenous participation model, we show that in equilibrium the new market entrants are less informed than the rest of the participants. We study how volatility depends on market participation and on the level of information of the participants. The condit...

Entrepreneurs need cash to finance their investments. Since cash is costly to hold, entrepreneurs underinvest. If entrepreneurs are able to access secondary financial markets, then they can sell some of their less liquid assets for cash and invest at a higher level. When the secondary financial markets are over-the-counter (OTC), the amount of liquidity (cash) that is in the market affects asse...

I conduct an experiment to observe individual traders’ beliefs and desired behavior in a partial-equilibrium asset market. Isolated traders trade a risky asset in a market with exogenous prices. The price series exhibits a "bubble," diverging strongly from the expected dividend yield. Before trading, traders predict the asset’s price in the upcoming period, the price in the …nal period, and the...

——————————————————————————————————— We develop a model where agents can allocate their wealth between a liquid asset, which can be used to purchase consumption goods, and an illiquid asset, which represents a better store of value. Should a consumption opportunity arise, agents may visit a frictional “over-the-counter” secondary asset market where they can exchange illiquid for liquid assets. W...

In this paper we introduce a new methodology to test market efficiency and to assess the performance of the most widely accepted asset pricing models. We use this methodology to test the semi-strong form of market efficiency in the context of publicly available accounting information. Instead of testing for a single accounting-based firm characteristic that can generate abnormal excess returns ...

Asset prices and investment were unusually weak throughout the industrial world during the early 1990s. This paper highlights this stylized fact, and connects it with another: in most of the industrial world, asset markets boomed for several years before collapsing around 1989. The paper suggests that asset market bubbles during the late 1980s may have left the industrial world with an ‘asset m...