Stock liquidity and default risk

Stock Liquidity and Default Risk*

Essays on Stock Market Liquidity and Liquidity Risk Premium

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Asset Liquidity and Stock Liquidity

We study the relation between the liquidity of the firm’s assets and the liquidity of financial claims on the assets, thereby linking corporate finance decisions to stock liquidity. Our model highlights an ambiguous relationship. While greater asset liquidity reduces uncertainty regarding valuation of assets-in-place, it increases future investments and the associated uncertainty. The model sho...

The relationship between stock liquidity risk and financial information quality criteria in Tehran Stock Exchange

The current study aims to investigate the relationship between stock liquidity risk and financial information quality criteria (i.e. the timely dividends announcement, accruals quality and the percentage of profitability prediction error) of companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. For this purpose, 148 cases of data from listed companies, collected from 2007 to 2012, were employed in ord...

Default Risk, Shareholder Advantage, and Stock Returns∗

In this paper, we study the relationship between default probability and stock returns. Using the market-based measure of Expected Default Frequency— (EDF—) constructed by Moody’s KMV, we first demonstrate that higher default probabilities are not necessarily associated with higher expected stock returns, a finding that complements the existing empirical evidence. We then show that the puzzling...