credit spreads during 2002-2012: a liquidity regime and a default regime. Both regimes contribute to the patterns observed in … credit spreads. The liquidity regime seems to explain the predictive power of credit risk on the 2007-2009 NBER recession …

lower market and funding liquidity and higher investors' risk-aversion are important drivers of the increase in the spread …This paper examines the effects of liquidity during the 2007-09 crisis, focussing on the senior tranche of the CDX …-capital, and liquidity preference exhibited by investors. Using cointegration analysis, the paper shows that during the crisis …

correlate positively to calendar spread liquidity and constraints on intermediation capital. The strategy delivers low … risk. This rebalancing creates predictable demand for liquidity. We also apply the strategy to a group of commodities not …

We show that liquidity risk is priced in the cross section of returns on credit default swaps (CDSs). We measure CDS … constituents' CDS spreads, and we construct a tradable liquidity factor from returns on index arbitrage strategies. CDS contracts … with higher liquidity exposures have higher expected excess returns for sellers of credit protection and trade with wider …

This paper examines how liquidity in two actively traded futures markets was affected by the recent financial crisis … withdrawal of liquidity from Eurodollar futures markets, yet a far more muted response in the S&P 500 index futures contract. A … deeper investigation into high-frequency trading strategies finds that prior to the crisis, liquidity additions and …