Pricing Implications of Shared Variance in Liquidity Measures
Abstract
Is the effect of liquidity risk on asset prices sensitive to our choice of liquidity proxy? In addressing this fundamental question, we achieve two main results. First, when we estimate factor models on a broad range of liquidity measures we uncover a profound distinction between trade and order based liquidity. Second, although the order based factor provides a better signal of available liquidity, we find that only the factor related to information risk explains expected returns both in a theoretical liquidity-CAPM model and in a linear pricing framework. Our results suggest a surprising fragility of liquidity-based asset pricing.Download Info
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Paper provided by Department of Finance and Management Science, Norwegian School of Economics in its series Discussion Papers with number 2006/9.Length: 41 pages
Date of creation: 04 Aug 2006
Date of revision: 21 Jun 2007
Handle: RePEc:hhs:nhhfms:2006_009
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Keywords: CAPM; Liquidity Risk; Liquidity Factor; Order Based Measure; Trade Based Measure; Information Risk;Find related papers by JEL classification:
- G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing
- G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies
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