Traditional liquidity measures can provide a false impression of the liquidity and stability of financial market trading. Using data on auctions (bids wanted in competition; BWICs) from the collateralized loan obligation (CLO) market, we show that a standard measure of liquidity, the effective...

We examine the network of trading relations between insurers and dealers in the over-the-counter corporate bond market. Comprehensive regulatory data shows that many insurers use only one dealer while the largest insurers have networks of up to forty dealers. Large insurers receive better prices...

Using data on indicative quotes dealers provide to clients, we establish empirical relationships regarding quote competition in the corporate bond market. Market-wide higher quoting activity is associated with greater trading volume and lower trading costs. At the dealer level, quoting dealers...