This paper addresses the question of whether transaction costs affect stock prices. This question, in the intersection of market microstructure and asset pricing, has no supportive causal evidence to this date, which may explain the omission of transaction costs in mainstream asset pricing...

This paper investigates liquidity spillovers between the US and European interbank market during turbulent and tranquil periods. We show that an endogenous model with time-varying transition probabilities is effective in describing the propagation of liquidity shocks within the interbank market,...

In this paper, I evaluate a potential cost of large-scale asset programs, also known as quantitative easing (QE). Specifically, I assess the effect of ongoing Federal Reserve mortgage-backed security (MBS) purchases on liquidity conditions in the MBS market. Considering several indicators of...

This paper uses the 2007-2009 financial crisis as a negative liquidity shock on banks in the US and analyzes its transmission to the real economy. The ex-ante heterogeneity in the amount of long-term debt that matured during the crisis is used to measure the variation in banks' exposure to the...

We examine China's June 2013 liquidity crunch as a negative shock to banks and analyze the wealth effects on exchange-listed firms. Our findings suggest that liquidity shocks to financial institutions negatively impact borrower performance, particularly borrowers reporting outstanding loans at...

This paper examines the impact of exogenous liquidity shocks on banks borrowing funds in the interbank market. We evaluate the effects of idiosyncratic liquidity shocks — arising from deposits outflow at the bank level — and of the aggregate liquidity shock related to the U.S. tapering...

We examine whether institutional investors with different investment horizons exert different influences on a stock's liquidity effects. Our findings show that stocks increased by short-term institutions become more liquid while stocks increased by long-term institutions become less liquid....

Modern Portfolio Theory is a single-period model developed for the efficient securities market, in which asset prices are implicitly assumed to follow a random walk. It is widely agreed that real estate does not fit into the efficient market paradigm; however, mixed-asset portfolio analysis...

In this paper an event-study is conducted to investigate whether, in keeping with a substantial part of the finance literature, the shares of Sub-Saharan African firms experience a significant positive valuation effect (abnormal returns), around the date of a cross-listing event. Based on a...