marketplace such as a supermarket or a stock exchange with adequate liquidity. Further, people must have confidence that such a … well-functioning marketplace will also exist in the future. Market liquidity risk is the risk that the market will function … effects of market liquidity risk on asset pricing, investment management, corporate finance, banking, financial crises …

dilemma because of incomplete information about time-varying market liquidity. Unlike the competitive market makers that they … trade against, informed traders do not know whether the liquidity ("noise") trades are generated from a distribution with … high or low variance. Instead, they have to learn about liquidity from past prices and trading volume. Extreme price …

, this results in reduced market liquidity, while in primary markets it leads to higher auction revenues at an implicit cost …

positive liquidity implications of a new trading venue. To this end, we examine the impact of the Chi-X market entry in French … blue-chip equities on the liquidity of their home market. Our findings suggest that in consequence of the new competitor …'s market entry, liquidity in the most actively traded stocks was enhanced on the home market during the observation period …

schemes affect liquidity provision and asset prices. Investors face a trade-off between risk and return. At the benefit of a … liquidity provision to force traders to trade at a lower price. By contrast, bonus caps make traders value the asset less than … investors. This should encourage liquidity provision and decrease prices. In contrast to these predictions, we find that under …

We analyze a novel feedback mechanism between market and funding liquidity that causes self-fulfilling liquidity dry … gain by resorting to outside liquidity sources and withhold assets from secondary markets. This leads to adverse selectrion … become mutually reinforcing. We compare different policy measures that can mitigate the risk of inefficient liquidity dry …

I study a model of market-liquidity provision by levered intermediaries that, besides operating trading desks, run … deposit-taking franchises. Levered intermediaries’ heightened incentive to absorb risk helps to counteract liquidity …. However, liquidity provision may also overshoot, leading to unhealthy price bubbles and causing asset origination to become …