This paper examines stock liquidity in explaining the mixed relations between financial constraints and stock returns and the pricing of stock liquidity across financially constrained and unconstrained firms. We find a negative relation in liquid portfolios and a positive relation in illiquid...

As opposed to the “low beta low risk” convention, we show that low beta stocks are illiquid and exposed to high liquidity risk. After adjusting for liquidity risk, low beta stocks no longer outperform high beta stocks. Although investors who “bet against beta” earn a significant beta...

Employment growth (EG) is likely related to liquidity fundamentals of investment opportunities, firm health, and information environment. This, in turn, implies that liquidity risk may play a role in explaining the relation between employment growth and stock returns. We explain the link between...

In this paper, we propose a liquidity risk adjustment to the Epstein and Zin (1989, 1991) model and assess the adjusted model's performance against the traditional consumption pricing models. We show that liquidity is a significant risk factor and it adds considerable explanatory power to the...

We examine the liquidity provision premium in cryptocurrency markets using the returns from the short reversal strategy suggested by Nagel (2012). We show that the VIX index, economic policy uncertainty (EPU) index, crash risk, tail risk, and the innovations of Tether liquidity can predict the...