{"title":"Asset Pricing Implications of Firms' Financing Constraints","authors":"João F. Gomes, A. Yaron, Lu Zhang","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.332181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.332181","url":null,"abstract":"We incorporate costly external finance in an investment-based asset pricing model and investigate whether financing frictions are quantitatively important for pricing a cross-section of expected returns. We show that common assumptions about the nature of the financing frictions are captured by a simple financing cost' function, equal to the product of the financing premium and the amount of external finance. This approach provides a tractable framework for empirical analysis. Using GMM, we estimate a pricing kernel that incorporates the effects of financing constraints on investment behavior. The key ingredients in this pricing kernel depend not only on fundamentals', such as profits and investment, but also on the financing variables, such as default premium and the amount of external financing. Our findings, however, suggest that the role played by financing frictions is fairly negligible, unless the premium on external funds is procyclical, a property not evident in the data and not satisfied by most models of costly external finance.","PeriodicalId":114460,"journal":{"name":"Utah 2002 Twelfth Annual Winter Conference (Archive)","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117285575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Liquidity Service of Sovereign Bonds","authors":"Kathy Yuan","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.276190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.276190","url":null,"abstract":"This study explains theoretically why sovereign securities are desirable in improving liquidity for securities markets in emerging-market economies. When systematic risk is high and information is costly, there is an information externality for a firm to issue public securities. As a result, either the number of firms entering securities markets is too low or the amount each firm issues is insufficient for security prices to convey information. By contrast, sovereign securities stimulate information production and thus liquidity by making informed trading more profitable. This study also examines empirically the liquidity service of sovereign bonds on corporate bonds for six emerging-market economies. The test results indicate that a new sovereign issue, on average, lowers the bid-ask spread of corporate bonds by 22.1 basis points, from a mean level of 165 basis points; decreases corporate bond spread over treasury by 32.2 basis points, from the mean level of 496.3 basis points; and reduces the correlation between returns on corporate bonds and the corporate return index by 0.106, from a mean level of 0.385.","PeriodicalId":114460,"journal":{"name":"Utah 2002 Twelfth Annual Winter Conference (Archive)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122535063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}