Traditional liquidity measures can provide a false impression of the liquidity and stability of financial market … show that a standard measure of liquidity, the effective bid-ask spread, dramatically underestimates the true cost of …

-09 financial crisis is often attributed to corporate bond dealers shedding off their inventory, right when liquidity was scarce …, including proprietary trading desks in investment banks, provided liquidity in response to the large selling by clients …. Corporate bond inventory of dealers rose sharply as a result. Although providing liquidity, limits to arbitrage, possibly in the …

explanatory power for yield spreads, controlling for liquidity, credit risk and other factors. The effect of insurer clustering on …

The convention in calculating trading costs in corporate bond markets is to assume that dealers provide liquidity to … provide liquidity in corporate bond markets, and thus, average bid-ask spreads underestimate trading costs that customers … demanding liquidity pay. Compared with periods before the 2008 financial crisis, substantial amounts of liquidity provision have …

disrupting the liquidity or stability of mortgage secondary markets. In the process, the programs have created a new financial … market for pricing and trading mortgage credit risk, which has grown in size and liquidity over time. The CRT programs …