We use a unique dataset reporting the trading of an institutional asset manager implementing trend following strategies to estimate the associated transaction costs. With information both at the trade and the fund levels, we disentangle the impact of the execution quality from the management...

Financial markets are today so interconnected that they are fragile to contagion. Massive investment funds with very short horizons in -and out- flows can generate contagion effects between markets. Since 2010, investors are willing to get a liquid exposure to the EM sovereign debt. As a...

Until recently the liquidity of financial assets has typically been viewed as a second-order consideration. Liquidity was frequently associated with simple transaction costs that impose - temporary if any- effect on asset prices, and whose shocks could be easily diversified away. Yet the...

ETFs and index funds have grown at very rapid rates in recent years. Originally launched to track some large liquid indices in developed markets, they now also concern less liquid asset classes such as emerging market bonds. Illiquidity certainly affects the quality of the replication, and in...

In a new environment where liquidity providers as well as liquidity consumers act strategically, understanding how liquidity flows and dries-up is key. In this paper, we propose a dynamic extension of the seminal model of Tauchen and Pitts (1983)' Mixture of Distributions Hypothesis (MDH) that...