This paper develops a sequential random matching model of asset trading to analyze how the extent of information about an asset that is available in the market can affect its tradeability. Liquidity traders are rational agents with higher impatience, which make optimal intertemporal consumption decisions given the trading constraints. Information asymmetries result in unexecuted trades. Agents ...

Liquidity risk management ranks to key concepts applied in finance. Liquidity is defined as a capacity to obtain funding when needed, while liquidity risk means as a threat to this capacity to generate cash at fair costs. In the paper we present challenges of liquidity risk management resulting from the 20072009 global financial upheaval. We see five main regulatory liquidity risk management is...

Considerable anecdotal evidence suggests that the effects of liquidity shocks spread quickly throughout the financial sector. However, few studies have focused on the dynamics of liquidity across real-estate markets. This paper examines the liquidity spill-over impact across four markets linked by a common fundamental factor : the stock market, the derivative (Credit Default Swap (CDS)) market,...

We show that idiosyncratic liquidity risk is positively priced in the cross-section of stock returns. Our measure of idiosyncratic liquidity volatility is based on a ”market” model for stock liquidity. Idiosyncratic volatility of liquidity is priced in the presence of systematic liquidity risk: the covariance of stock returns with aggregate liquidity, the covariance of stock liquidity with aggr...

We explore a new dimension of fund managers' timing ability by examining whether they can time market liquidity through adjusting their portfolios'market exposure as aggregate liquidity conditions change. Using a large sample of hedge funds, we find strong evidence of liquidity timing. A bootstrap analysis suggests that top-ranked liquidity timers cannot be attributed to pure luck. In out-of-sa...

Article history: Received 19 July 2012 Received in revised form 21 November 2013 Accepted 28 November 2013 Available online 7 December 2013 We investigate the pricing implication of liquidity risks in the liquidity-adjusted capital asset pricing model of Acharya and Pedersen (2005), using multiple liquidity measures and their principal component. While we find that the empirical results are sen...

We document a positive relation between the volatility of liquidity and expected returns. Our measure of liquidity is based on Amihud (2002) and its volatility is measured using daily data. We show that the volatility of liquidity effect is different from previously documented liquidity risks: the covariance of stock returns with aggregate liquidity, the covariance of stock liquidity with aggre...

We present an empirical study of the pricing effect of liquidity in the credit default swaps (CDS) market. We construct liquidity proxies to capture various facets of CDS liquidity including adverse selection, search frictions, and inventory costs. We show that the liquidity effect on CDS spreads is significant with an estimated liquidity premium on par with those of Treasury bonds and corporat...

entral banks provide liquidity in various contexts to promote the stability and efficient functioning of the financial system. While the exact institutional aspects of liquidity provision vary among central banks, some basic features seem to be generic. First, the provision of central bank liquidity in normal periods is restricted to a small subset of possible agents who are encouraged to compe...