In this paper, we analyze the Chinese Government Bond (CGB) market. We find that CGB returns exhibit three common risk factors, which are well captured by three indices composed of short-, medium-, and long-term bonds. Moreover, these common risk factors exhibit strong momentum. In particular,...

Given the cross-sectional and temporal variation in their liquidity, emerging equity markets provide an ideal setting to examine the impact of liquidity on expected returns. Our main liquidity measure is a transformation of the proportion of zero daily firm returns, averaged over the month. We...