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A Search-Based Theory of the On-the-Run Phenomenon / Dimitri Vayanos, Pierre-Olivier Weill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vayanos, Dimitri.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12670.
- NBER working paper series no. w12670
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.
- Summary:
- We propose a model in which assets with identical cash flows can trade at different prices. Infinitely-lived agents can establish long positions in a search spot market, or short positions by first borrowing an asset in a search repo market. We show that short-sellers can endogenously concentrate in one asset because of search externalities and the constraint that they must deliver the asset they borrowed. That asset enjoys greater liquidity, measured by search times, and a higher lending fee ("specialness"). Liquidity and specialness translate into price premia that are consistent with no-arbitrage. We derive closed-form solutions for small frictions, and can generate price differentials in line with observed on-the-run premia.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2006.
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