This work focuses on two of the more frequent practices in financial (especially capital) markets - the use of hidden orders and High-Frequency Trading (HFT). Although the use of each of them may reach 40% of the market turnover - even 60% for HFT, the actual knowledge on how they affect...

In this paper we provide an operational definition of market and funding liquidity, and we introduce a method to create two interpretable liquidity measures, which we associate to these two types of liquidity. The construction is based on creating two parsimonious linear combinations of the many...

Cross-sectional models positively relate firm information disclosure with stock liquidity, but dynamic models in news releases days show an opposite relation. We address this puzzle by studying the effects of information arrival on liquidity and its determinants. We use trade and quote data from...

I find that market accessibility ex ante plays an important role in how the underlying assets' liquidity changes when a basket security is introduced. First, using a multi-market version of the Kyle model, I show that the less (more) accessible the underlying market is, the more its liquidity...

This paper shows that funding liquidity risk is priced in the cross-section of excess returns on agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS). We derive a measure of funding liquidity risk from dollar-roll implied financing rates (IFRs), which reflect security-level costs of financing positions in...

Most mortgages in the United States are securitized through the agency mortgage-backedsecurities (MBS) market. These securities are generally traded on a “to-be-announced,” or TBA, basis. This trading convention significantly improves agency MBS liquidity, leading to lower borrowing costs...

In the repo market, forward agreements are security-specific (i.e., there are no deliverable substitutes), which makes it an ideal place to measure the value of fluctuations in a security's available supply. In this study, we quantify the scarcity value of Treasury collateral by estimating the...

We investigate the determinants of bid-ask spreads on corporate credit default swaps (CDSs). We find that proxies for dealer inventory costs such as variability of CDS premia and CDS trading volume explain as much as 80% of variation in CDS bid-ask spreads. We also analyze the influence of...

Market microstructure models imply that informed trading reduces liquidity. We test for the effect of the frequency of new releases, as a proxy of information arrival, on liquidity in the Chilean stock market. We find that news release frequency is strongly related to improved liquidity. Those...

In this paper, we investigate the role of proprietary algorithmic traders in facilitating liquidity in a limit order market. Using the order level data from National Stock Exchange of India, we find that they increase limit order supply following periods of high short-term volatility or periods...