liquidity premium. This approach gives a better estimate of the default premium than mid quotes, and it allows to disentangle … and compare the liquidity premium earned by the protection buyer and the protection seller. In contrast to other studies …, our model is structurally much simpler, while it also allows for correlation between liquidity and default premia, as …

This paper examines the impact of stock liquidity on firm bankruptcy risk. Using the Securities and Exchange Commission … decimalization regulation as a shock to stock liquidity, we establish that enhanced liquidity decreases default risk. Stocks with the … highest default risk experience the largest improvements. We find two mechanisms through which stock liquidity reduces firm …

Market liquidity is informative of future corporate defaults but in a nuanced way. A firm's probability of default … increases with market illiquidity only when the firm's funding liquidity is tight and/or solvency position is weak. Such …