Is greater trading liquidity good or bad for corporate governance? We address this question both theoretically and … information concerns her own plans for taking an active role in governance. We show that an increase in the liquidity of the firm …'s stock increases the likelihood of the large investor 'taking the Wall Street walk.' Thus, higher liquidity is harmful for …

Treasury bills and other near-money assets provide owners with liquidity service benefits that are reflected in prices … in the form of a liquidity premium. I relate time variation in this liquidity premium to changes in the opportunity cost … of money: The liquidity service benefits of near-money assets are more valuable when short-term interest rates are high …

We provide a model that links an asset's market liquidity - i.e., the ease with which it is traded - and traders …' funding liquidity - i.e., the ease with which they can obtain funding. Traders provide market liquidity, and their ability to … are charged, depend on the assets' market liquidity. We show that, under certain conditions, margins are destabilizing and …

Price-based liquidity metrics are better in 2013-2014 for small trades and large high-yield bond trades, but not for … relative to 2010-2012. This evidence contrasts with the widely-held view among practitioners that liquidity has worsened …-crisis liquidity could be low when markets are stressed. We consider three stress events: extreme VIX increases, extreme bond yield …

dire consequences in terms of under-provision of market liquidity, has been repeatedly raised. This paper presents … systematic evidence from four different estimation strategies of the absence of breakpoints in market liquidity for fixed …-income asset classes and across multiple liquidity measures, with special attention given to the corporate bond market. The …

national best bid and offer. Enhanced order flow to dark venues reduces price competition by exchange liquidity providers …

Illiquidity in short-term credit markets during the financial crisis might have severely curtailed the supply of non … effect of illiquidity on car sales is large and negative. We conclude that the decline in auto sales during the financial … crisis was caused in part by a credit supply shock driven by the illiquidity of the most important providers of consumer …

the international liquidity management aspect of sterilization over the traditional monetary one, a re-focus that seems …' problem, although the central bank acts non-selectively and only intervenes through open markets in our model. Illiquidity … liquidity management issues more generally …

We calculate the socially optimal level of illiquidity in an economy populated by households with taste shocks and …

We propose a novel measure of bond market liquidity that does not depend on transaction data: the strength of the cross … portfolio holdings to be at a given point in time. The perceived liquidity of speculative grade and Rule 144A bonds is …