We explore whether silent information (electronic information flows) affects future price, spread and quoted depth levels in the Nasdaq Stock Market. Controlling for the time-series properties of silent information, past price, volume, electronic communications network (ECN) volume, time-of-day...

We examine the sensitivity of corporate investment to stock-market valuations (measured by Tobin's q) and internal funds (measured by cash flow) in a setting that captures the unique country institutional characteristics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. We report a higher...

We examine the relationship between stock extreme illiquidity and the implied cost of capital for firms from 45 countries. We document robust evidence that firms whose stocks have a greater potential for extreme illiquidity realizations suffer from higher cost of capital. A one standard...

Using the liquidity-adjusted CAPM (LCAPM) model, we estimate three time-varying illiquidity risks based on the DCC-GARCH(1,1) for 49,351 common stocks of which 20,678 trade in 60 emerging markets and the remaining 28,673 in 23 developed markets. The reported evidence from the cross-sectional...