This paper adopts the methodology used by Fama and French (1993) to construct two measures of liquidity risk. These liquidity proxies solve the empirical issue of comparability between risk factors by utilizing the standardized unit of risk first proposed for size and value effects. As far as I know, this has not been done before. Modeling these additional liquidity premiums indicate an improve...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper reexamines the liquidity effect on stock expected returns in the NYSE over the period 1926–2008, the pre-1963 period, for which there is a lack of research, and the post-1963 period. The results from the entire sample of 1926–2008 show that expected returns increase with the stock level illiquidity. However, illiquidity level has explanatory power in the cross-s...

Article history: Received 24 April 2012 Received in revised form 8 September 2012 Accepted 17 September 2012 Available online 25 September 2012 We extend the market timing literature to show that SEO timing can be characterized by the dynamics of liquidity risk. That is, firms tend to issue SEOs when liquidity risk declines to the point where investors have least concern of the risk. In the abs...

This paper presents an analysis of the liquidity effect in the euro area – the link between the availability of aggregate liquidity and the interbank overnight rate. Applying a set of assumptions which also lead to the “martingale property” of the overnight rate, a model linking the latter to the expected aggregate liquidity conditions is formulated and calibrated. Different assumptions for how...

Financial institutions around theworld expected themillennium date change (Y2K) to cause an aggregate liquidity shortage. Responding to the concern, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York auctioned Y2K options to primary dealers. The options gave the dealers the right to borrow from the Fed at a predetermined interest rate. Using the implied volatilities of Y2K options and the on/off-the-run spre...

Many small over-the-counter (OTC) markets with thinly-traded assets are prone to episodic volatility and market failure due to their high potential for predatory activity. The traders in these markets constitute a tight oligopoly and liquidity events become known to all parties quickly. However, these markets appear to function at relatively low spreads and market failure is rare. We show that ...

So far the main body of the asset pricing literature has computed liquidity risk premia for either markets or single assets. The vast majority of these studies have been focused on fairly liquid assets, but recently a greater attempt to price such an important component of the asset pricing factors in markets with high illiquidity (especially in real estate) has also started to take place. The ...

Financial contagion from liquidity shocks has being recently ascribed as a prominent driver of systemic risk in interbank lending markets. Building on standard compartment models used in epidemics, here we develop an EDB (Exposed-Distressed-Bankrupted) model for the dynamics of liquidity shocks reverberation between banks, and validate it on electronic market for interbank deposits data. We sho...