This study investigates the pricing of liquidity risk in stock market using conditional Asset Pricing Models (APMs). The estimation is conducted in the Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) framework with a price of risk specification. The main interest is to find out whether liquidity is priced as...

It turns out that stock return volatility responds asymmetrically following negative stock returns. A negative return shock causes next-period volatility to increase more than that of a positive return shock. The article examines the asymmetric property of return volatility using the volatility...