Alternative assets, such as private equity, hedge funds, and real assets, are illiquid and opaque, and thus pose a challenge to traditional models of asset allocation. In this paper, we study asset allocation and asset pricing in a generalequilibrium model with liquid assets and an alternative risky asset, which is opaque and incurs transaction costs, and investors who differ in their experienc...

This article shows that the “risk premium” shock in Smets and Wouters (2007) can be interpreted as a structural shock to the demand for safe and liquid assets such as short-term US Treasury securities. Several implications of this interpretation are discussed. JEL Classification Numbers: E00, E1, E3, E4, E5, G1

We study a model in which a special role for safe, short-term assets in facilitating financial intermediation encourages the private sector to issue these assets to supplement the public supply of safe, short-term assets, even though their role in providing liquidity can be put in jeopardy during financial panics that lead agents to question the low-risk nature of these assets. During “normal” ...

We investigate the effects of an increase in liquidity (a “savings glut”) on the incentives to originate high quality assets, and on the fragility of the financial sector. Originators incur private costs when originating high quality assets. Assets are subsequently distributed in two markets: A private market where informed intermediaries operate, and an exchange where uninformed investors trad...

A perpetual youth overlapping generations model is presented in which the presence of financial frictions can create the crowd-in effect of asset bubbles that promotes capital accumulation. The existence of asset bubbles increases the equilibrium interest rate. Although the increased interest rate excludes less productive agents from production activity, these agents benefit from the liquidity ...

The relation between a firm’s stock return and its intangible investment ratio and asset tangibility is derived under the intangible-asset-augemnted (IAA) q-theory framework. Using firm level data and the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), we estimate the model and three main results emerge. First, the IAA q-theory captures the value premium and the relation between R&D intensity and stock re...

In over-the-counter markets, the presence of two frictions is central to determine prices, liquidity, and efficiency: the search friction reflected in how long it takes to find a trading opportunity and the bargaining friction reflected in how promptly gains from trade are realized once the opportunity is identified. This paper captures both frictions by introducing an asset-specific trade dela...

Institutions commonly purchase fully utilized, prime properties of “institutional quality,” while other investors buy both underutilized and subprime properties. Managers of institutions with well diversified, liquid portfolios claim to be averse to the additional risk and illiquidity of noninstitutional assets. This behavior and its puzzling explanation are predicted by this dynamic model of c...

The purpose of this paper is to relate the Danish concept of the “Balance Principle” to test the hypotheses of systemic liquidity risk in the banking sector. In the paper, the major econometric method is to gauge the general applicability of theories of liquidity and to test the applicable validity of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH). A prime example for this study is taken from the first quarter of...