Market liquidity, asset prices and welfare:

"This paper presents an equilibrium model for the demand and supply of liquidity and its impact on asset prices and welfare. We show that when constant market presence is costly, purely idiosyncratic shocks lead to endogenous demand of liquidity and large price deviations from fundamentals. Mor...

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Main Authors: Huang, Jennifer 1973- (Author), Wang, Jiang 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2008
Series:Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research 14058
Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"This paper presents an equilibrium model for the demand and supply of liquidity and its impact on asset prices and welfare. We show that when constant market presence is costly, purely idiosyncratic shocks lead to endogenous demand of liquidity and large price deviations from fundamentals. Moreover, market forces fail to lead to efficient supply of liquidity, which calls for potential policy interventions. However, we demonstrate that different policy tools can yield different efficiency consequences. For example, lowering the cost of supplying liquidity on the spot (e.g., through direct injection of liquidity or relaxation of ex post margin constraints) can decrease welfare while forcing more liquidity supply (e.g., through coordination of market participants) can improve welfare"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site
Physical Description:41 S. graph. Darst. 22 cm

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