Year
2014
Authors
VRANCEANU Radu, BESANCENOT D.
Abstract
This paper introduces an experiment aiming to investigate the contribution of illiquidity risk to the total risk of a collective investment project. If implemented, the project succeeds with a known probability. Yet the project fails if the quota of investors is not reached in the first place. Hence strategic uncertainty compounds its effect with the “intrinsic risk” of the project. Results confirm the insidious nature of illiquidity: as long as a first collective default does not occur, investors accept high intrinsic risk projects. After a first default, they become extremely prudent and come back to market only gradually. After several defaults, private agents manage to coordinate on a relatively low intrinsic risk above which they refuse to participate in the project. Macroeconomic policy implications follow.
BESANCENOT, D. et VRANCEANU, R. (2014). Experimental Evidence on the ‘Insidious’ Illiquidity Risk. Research in Economics, 68(4), pp. 315-323.