Stock Liquidity and Stock Return

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...

Stock Liquidity and Default Risk*

portfolio selection using return mean, return standard deviation and liquidity in tehran stock exchange

markowitz, in his portfolio selection theory, stated that investors select their portfolios according to two criteria of risk and return. accordingly, he presented his mathematical model. one of the criticisms of this model is that while investors, practically, consider different criteria in forming their portfolios, it only considers the return mean and return standard deviation. liquidity is ...

Advertising Spending and Stock Return

The paper investigates one important aspect of long-term investor response to marketing actions, namely, the relationship between advertising spending and stock return. We hypothesize that advertising can have a direct effect on valuation, i.e. an effect over and above its known impact on revenue and profit response. The empirical results in two industries support our hypothesis and quantify th...

Mutual fund competition and stock market liquidity

We study how competition in the mutual fund industry affects the stock market and its liquidity. We argue that mutual fund families operate as multi-product firms, jointly choosing fees, performance and number of funds. We show that competition between fund families distorts the incentives to collect information and induces the families to trade off performance and number of funds. An increase ...