Shing-yang Hu (National Taiwan University & University of Chicago)
Abstract
This paper tries to find a widely accessible measure of liquidity and studies its impact on asset pricing. Using trading turnover as a measure of liquidity and the 1976-1993 Tokyo Stock Exchange data, I find that, cross-sectionally, stocks with higher turnover tend to have a lower expected return. This evidence is consistent with predictions derived from an Amihud-Mendelson type of transaction cost model in which the turnover measures investors’ trading frequency. The trading frequency hypothesis also predicts that the cross-sectional expected return is a concave function of the turnover and the time-series expected return is an increasing function of the turnover. The Japanese data supports both predictions.
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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Finance with number
9702001.
Length: 29 pages Date of creation: 13 Feb 1997 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:wpa:wuwpfi:9702001
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Gallant, A Ronald & Rossi, Peter E & Tauchen, George, 1992.
"Stock Prices and Volume,"
Review of Financial Studies,
Oxford University Press for Society for Financial Studies, vol. 5(2), pages 199-242.
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