Discussion Papers

In this paper, the authors apply a continuous time stochastic process model developed by Shiryaev and Zhutlukhin for optimal stopping of random price...

One of the most contentious issues raised during the recent crisis has been the potentially exacerbating role played by mark-to-market accounting...

We present a model of an economy with heterogeneous banks that may be funded with uninsured deposits and equity capital. Capital serves to ameliorate...

Financial market liquidity has become increasingly fragmented across multiple trading platforms. We propose an intuitive welfare-based market quality...

The availability of credit varies over the business cycle through shifts in the leverage of financial intermediaries. Empirically, we find that...

We study managerial incentive provision under moral hazard in a firm subject to stochastic growth opportunities. In our model, managers are dismissed...