Junge, Benjamin; Trolle, Anders B. - 2013
We show that liquidity risk is priced in the cross section of returns on credit default swaps (CDSs). We measure CDS … market illiquidity by aggregating deviations of credit index levels from their no-arbitrage values implied by the index … constituents' CDS spreads, and we construct a tradable liquidity factor from returns on index arbitrage strategies. CDS contracts …