This paper studies the pricing of liquidity risk in the cross section of corporate bonds for the period from January 1994 to March 2009. The average return on bonds with high sensitivities to aggregate liquidity exceeds that for bonds with low sensitivities by about 4% annually. The positive relation between expected corporate bond returns and liquidity beta is robust to the effects of default ...

We study the interplay between corporate liquidity and asset reallocation. Our model shows that financially distressed firms are acquired by liquid firms in their industries even in the absence of operational synergies. We call these transactions ‘‘liquidity mergers,’’ since their purpose is to reallocate liquidity to firms that are otherwise inefficiently terminated. We show that liquidity mer...

Market liquidity has an important role in trading on stock markets, since on illiquid markets the implicit cost of trading can cause notable losses for the investors. Therefore market participants should always measure the liquidity of the markets, which they can carry out in two ways, in a static and in a dynamic form. The most commonly used liquidity measures – bid-ask spread and the turnover...

This article presents a discussion of stock market liquidity and its relation to financial crises. It begins by defining liquidity and explaining possible measures of liquidity and then explores factors influencing liquidity. It also analyzes the liquidity among 11 Asian countries. The empirical findings based on the time-series analysis show a sharp decline in stock liquidity during both the 1...

Based on the premise that non-trading reflects illiquidity, we hypothesize that managers use stock splits to attract more uninformed trading so that market makers can provide liquidity services at lower costs, which increases investors’ trading propensity and improves liquidity. The improvement allows investors to face reduced liquidity risk and require a lower liquidity premium, which in turn ...

This article presents a discussion of stock market liquidity and its relation to financial crises. It begins by defining liquidity and explaining possible measures of liquidity and then explores factors influencing liquidity. It also analyzes the liquidity among 11 Asian countries. The empirical findings based on the time-series analysis show a sharp decline in stock liquidity during both the 1...

We examine the impact on the quality of a securities market of hiding versus displaying orders that provide liquidity. Display expropriates informational rents from informed agents who trade as liquidity providers. The informed then exit liquidity provision in favor of demanding liquidity where they trade less aggressively. Trading costs to uninformed liquidity demanders are higher, bid-ask spr...

The study examines the existence of liquidity risk premia on freight derivatives returns. The Amihud liquidity ratio and bid-ask spreads are utilized to assess the existence of liquidity premia. Other macroeconomic variables are used to control for market risk. Results indicate that liquidity risk is priced and both liquidity measures have a significant role in determining freight derivatives r...

We investigate the stochastic dynamics of bank liquidity parameters such as liquid assets and nett cash outflow in relation to the global financial crisis. These parameters enable us to determine the liquidity coverage ratio that is one of themetrics used in ratio analysis to measure bank liquidity. In this regard, numerical results show that bank behavior related to liquidity was highly procyc...

We estimate latent factor models of liquidity and volatility. Common liquidity and volatility factors are extracted using multiple liquidity and volatility measures. Additionally, latent factors are extracted by aggregating across both liquidity and volatility resulting in what we will call the common “uncertainty” factors. We find that volatility and the common uncertainty risk are significant...