Ambiguity aversion, funding liquidity, and liquidation dynamics

Ji Yeol Jimmy Oh

Journal of Financial Markets, 2014, vol. 18, issue C, 49-76

Abstract: This paper examines how ambiguity aversion and funding liquidity affect market dynamics when a large strategic trader is forced to liquidate. More specifically, the paper explores how ambiguity over an asset's value affects liquidation dynamics when ambiguity-averse traders follow maxmin utility. I also present the joint effects of ambiguity and limited funding liquidity on this liquidation process. The findings reveal that the presence of ambiguity leads to the emergence of a ‘no-trade region.’ This lack of trading activity under ambiguity becomes more prominent as the ambiguous support widens, and interestingly, as the initial wealth of the distressed strategic trader increases.

Keywords: Knightian uncertainty; Forced liquidation; Maxmin utility; Trading freeze; Fire-sale price (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G01 G12 G14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.finmar.2013.07.003

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