Debt, Information, and Illiquidity

We thank Yakov Amihud and Bengt Holmstrom for numerous conversations. We also thank Jack Bao, Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Douglas Diamond, Marty Eichanbaum, Paul Gao, Gary Gorton, Joel Hasbrouck, Christopher Hennessy, Charlie Himmelberg, Ryan Israelsen, Ralph Koijen, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Gregor Matvos, Toby Moskowitz, Jun Pan, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Adriano Rampini, Sergio Rebelo, Alexi Savov, Stephen Schaefer, Adi Sunderam, Jeremy Stein, Steve Strongin, S. Viswanathan, Avi Whol, Brian Weller, and seminar participants at AQR, Baruch College, Boston College, Brigham Young University, Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Duke University, The Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute Academic Fellowship Conference, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Kellogg School of Management, London Business School, London School of Economics, Michigan State University, NBER Summer Institute: Macro, Money and Financial Frictions, Notre Dame (Mendoza), NYU Stern, Stanford Conference in Honor of Bengt Holmstrom, Tel Aviv University, University of Amsterdam, University of Miami, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas Dallas, and University of Washington. We are grateful to Jack Bao and Kewei Hou for sharing their bond liquidity data. Yupeng Wang provided excellent research assistance. We thank the Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute for financial support. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.