The Determinants of Liquidity in the Corporate Bond Markets: An Application of Latent Liquidity We present a new measure of liquidity known as “latent liquidity” and apply it to a unique corporate bond database to discern the characteristics of bonds that lead to higher liquidity. Unlike conventional measures of liquidity, such as trading volume and bid-ask spreads, our measure of liquidity doe...

the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between dividend policy with stock liquidity and information asymmetry considering the characteristics of the company as controlling variables in tehran stock exchange. for this purpose, all listed companies in tehran stock exchange as the statistical population was considered during the period 2009 to 2014, that after screening by simple...

On the basis of a liquidity management model, liquidity risks, defined as the probability of payment failures in a real-time gross settlement (RTGS) payment system, may either stem from liquidity management inefficiencies or insufficient cash balances. I will show that penalties charged on the amount of payment failures minimise liquidity risks without interfering with the bank’s technology pre...

Liquidity is generally viewed as a positive characteristic of a traded asset in positive net supply. Ceteris paribus, the higher liquidity of a given asset should be reflected in a higher price or a lower required return. This issue is of particular interest if the same asset is traded in multiple markets. In this setting, apart from the effect of liquidity on pricing in each market, there is t...

Given the cross-sectional and temporal variation in their liquidity, emerging equity markets provide an ideal setting to examine the impact of liquidity on expected returns. Our main liquidity measure is a transformation of the proportion of zero daily firm returns, averaged over the month. We find that it significantly predicts future returns, whereas alternative measures such as turnover do n...

The paper develops a model to study the optimal choice of the central bank haircut policy. In the presence of uncertainties regrading liquidity needs and asset prices, there is a trade-off between providing liquidity to constrained agents and controlling the abundance of liquidity in the economy. The choice of the haircut involves balancing impacts on the liquidity positions of agents with diff...

This paper examines how hedge funds manage their market risk according to changes in aggregate liquidity conditions. Using a large sample of equity-oriented hedge funds during the period of 1994–2008, we find strong evidence that hedge-fund managers possess the ability to time market liquidity at both the style category level and the individual fund level. They increase (decrease) their portfol...

Financial crises are often characterized by sharp reductions in liquidity followed by cascades of falling prices. Researchers are making progress in work to understand the levels of liquidity on a daily basis, but understanding the vulnerability of liquidity to market shocks remains a challenge. We develop an agent-based model with the objective of evaluating the market dynamics that lead the m...

This paper argues that a risk averse of workers after-tax reservation wage the difference between her reservation wage and the tax needed to fund the unemployment insurance system when liquidity constraint binds exists and it is unique. The optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of reservation wage to unemployment benefit shows the disincentive effect, i.e. higher unem...

This paper discusses how to introduce liquidity into the well known mean-variance framework of portfolio selection using a representative sample of Spanish equity portfolios. Either by estimating mean-variance liquidity constrained frontiers or directly estimating optimal portfolios for alternative levels of risk aversion and preference for liquidity, we obtain strong effects of liquidity on op...