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Economic assets can be classified into two broad categories: those earning an inherent return and those earning a fiat money return. This article shows that both are valued according to the same general principle based on GDP (a constant equal to expected long term real per capita GDP growth)...
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This study examines the relative importance of liquidity risk for the time-series and cross-section of stock returns in … test of the Amihud (2002) measure and parametric and non-parametric methods to investigate whether liquidity risk is priced … yield a small distance error, other non-liquidity based models fail to yield economically plausible distance values. Our …
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In recent years, a number of papers have established a new empirical regularity. Stocks of distressed firms vastly underperform those of financially healthy firms. It is not necessary to attribute the negative excess returns of distressed firms to inefficient or irrational markets. We show that...
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Our study examines whether financial distress risk is systematic risk using twelve portfolios sorted by size, book-to-market, and leverage and a portfolio of distressed firms covering an 18-year period. It also tests the explanatory power of the risk factors that best capture default risk. The...
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This study presents and empirically tests a simple framework that examines the effects of market liquidity (the ease … with which stocks are traded) and funding liquidity (the ease with which market participants can obtain funding) on stock … market bubbles. Three key findings emerge from this research. First, negative market and funding liquidity shocks increase …
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We merge the literature on downside return risk and liquidity risk and introduce the concept of extreme downside … liquidity (EDL) risks. The cross-section of stock returns reflects a premium if a stock's return (liquidity) is lowest at the … same time when the market liquidity (return) is lowest. This effect is not driven by linear or downside liquidity risk or …
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In this paper we survey the theoretical and empirical literatures on market liquidity. We organize both literatures … basic questions within that model. We review the empirical literature through the lens of the theory, using the theory to …
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This paper proposes a theory of the equilibrium liquidity premia of private equity funds and explores its asset …-pricing implications. The theory is based on the notion that investors are exposed to the risk of facing surprise liquidity shocks, which … funds and investors just break even, equilibrium liquidity premia are defined as the risk-adjusted excess returns that fund …
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market risk, whereas the second term can be interpreted as a required compensation for a form of liquidity risk. This … required compensation for liquidity risk increases linearly with the covariance between the proportion invested illiquid in the …
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Over-the-counter (OTC) stocks are far less liquid, disclose less information, and exhibit lower institutional holdings than listed stocks. We exploit these different market conditions to test theories of cross-sectional return premiums. Compared to premiums in listed markets, the OTC illiquidity...
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