We study default risk in an incomplete markets general equilibrium setting. We show some interesting properties of default and recovery rates in equilibrium, and derive CAPM-type equilibrium bounds on credit spreads. We are able to price aggregate components of credit risk, summarized in our...

This paper analyses the effects of open market operations on interest rates in a model in which agents must pay a fixed cost to exchange assets and cash. Asset markets are endogenously segmented in that some agents choose to pay the fixed cost and some do not. When the fixed cost is zero, the...