Measuring the multi-faceted dimension of liquidity in financial markets: A literature review

A Díaz, A Escribano - Research in International Business and Finance, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper provides a thorough review of the liquidity measures that are used in the
empirical literature to measure liquidity. A wide range of papers have emphasized its role …

Investor flows and fragility in corporate bond funds

I Goldstein, H Jiang, DT Ng - Journal of Financial Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper explores flow patterns in corporate bond mutual funds. We show that corporate
bond funds exhibit a concave flow-to-performance relationship: their outflows are sensitive …

Corporate Bond Liquidity Spreads and Japanese Banks' Risk Management: A Comparison of Two Financial Crises

Y Shirasu - Available at SSRN 2008618, 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
I empirically examine the components of Japanese bond spreads from views of market
liquidity and funding liquidity based on Japanese investors' liquidity demand during periods …

Measuring liquidity in bond markets

R Schestag, P Schuster… - The Review of Financial …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
In the literature, there is no consensus on a common approach to measure bond liquidity.
This paper is the first to comprehensively compare all commonly employed liquidity …

ETF arbitrage under liquidity mismatch

K Pan, Y Zeng - Available at SSRN 3723406, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
A natural liquidity mismatch emerges when liquid exchange traded funds (ETFs) hold
relatively illiquid assets. We provide a theory and empirical evidence showing that this …

Predicting corporate bond returns: Merton meets machine learning

TG Bali, A Goyal, D Huang, F Jiang… - … McDonough School of …, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
We investigate the return predictability of corporate bonds using big data and machine
learning. We find that machine learning models substantially improve the out-of-sample …

Economic policy uncertainty, CDS spreads, and CDS liquidity provision

X Wang, W Xu, Z Zhong - Journal of Futures Markets, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Using a news‐based index of economic policy uncertainty (EPU), we find that EPU is
positively associated with credit default swap (CDS) spreads and negatively associated with …

[PDF][PDF] Steering a ship in illiquid waters: Active management of passive funds

N Koont, Y Ma, L Pástor, Y Zeng - 2022 - aeaweb.org
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are among the most important financial intermediaries. Their
assets under management have grown quickly since their first appearance in 1993 …

Do sovereign credit default swaps represent a clean measure of sovereign default risk? A factor model approach

S Badaoui, L Cathcart, L El-Jahel - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2013 - Elsevier
In this study, we use a factor model in order to decompose sovereign Credit Default Swaps
(CDS) spreads into default, liquidity, systematic liquidity and correlation components. By …

Is market liquidity less resilient after the financial crisis? Evidence for US Treasuries

C Broto, M Lamas - Economic Modelling, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding market liquidity resilience, ie the capacity of liquidity to absorb shocks, of
United States Treasuries is crucial from a financial stability standpoint. The conventional …