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How to measure Corporate Bond Liquidity?

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Patrick Houweling () (Faculty of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Albert Mentink () (Faculty of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Ton Vorst () (Faculty of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam)

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We consider eight different measures (issued amount, coupon, listed, age, missing prices, price volatility, number of contributors and yield dispersion) to approximate corporate bond liquidity and use a five-variable model to control for maturity, credit and currency differences between bonds. The null hypothesis that liquidity risk is not priced in our data set of euro corporate bonds is rejected for seven out of eight liquidity measures. We find significant liquidity premia, ranging from 9 to 24 basis points. A comparison test between liquidity measures shows that some ways to measure liquidity are better than others.

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Paper provided by Tinbergen Institute in its series Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers with number 03-030/2.

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Keywords: liquidity corporate bonds Fama-French model euro market.

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C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Estimation
G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing

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  1. Coluzzi, Chiara & Ginebri, Sergio & Turco, Manuel, 2008. "Measuring and Analyzing the Liquidity of the Italian Treasury Security Wholesale Secondary Market," Economics & Statistics Discussion Papers esdp08044, University of Molise, Dept. SEGeS. [Downloadable!]
  2. C. N. V. Krishnan & Peter H. Ritchken & James B. Thomson, 2003. "On credit spread slopes and predicting bank risk," Working Paper 0314, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. [Downloadable!]
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