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Financial Entanglement: A Theory of Incomplete Integration, Leverage, Crashes, and Contagion

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  • Stavros Panageas

    (University of Chicago - Booth School of)

  • Jianfeng Yu

    (University of Minnesota)

  • Nicolae Garleanu

    (University of California, Berkeley)

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We propose a unied model of limited market integration, asset-price determination, leveraging, and contagion. Investors and firms are located on a circle, and access to markets involves participation costs that increase with distance. Despite the exante symmetry of investors, their strategies may (endogenously) exhibit diversity, with some investors in each location following high-leverage, high-participation, and high-cost strategies and some unleveraged, low-participation, and low-cost strategies. The capital allocated to high-leverage strategies may be vulnerable even to small changes in market-access costs, which can lead to discontinuous price drops, de-leveraging, and portfolio- flow reversals. Moreover, the market is subject to contagion, in that an adverse shock to investors at a subset of locations affects prices everywhere.

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  • Stavros Panageas & Jianfeng Yu & Nicolae Garleanu, 2014. "Financial Entanglement: A Theory of Incomplete Integration, Leverage, Crashes, and Contagion," 2014 Meeting Papers 711, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    • Handle: RePEc:red:sed014:711
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    1. Fulghieri, Paolo & Dicks, David, 2015. "Uncertainty Aversion and Systemic Risk," CEPR Discussion Papers 10510, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    2. Raman Uppal & Harjoat Bhamra, 2016. "Do Individual Behavioral Biases Affect Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy?," 2016 Meeting Papers 1358, Society for Economic Dynamics.

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