We propose a novel measure of bond market liquidity that does not depend on transaction data: the strength of the cross-sectional relationship between mutual fund cash holdings and fund flow volatility. Our measure captures how liquid funds perceive their portfolio holdings to be at a given...

Price-based liquidity metrics are better in 2013-2014 for small trades and large high-yield bond trades, but not for large investment grade bond trades, relative to before the crisis, and are better for all bond types and trade sizes relative to 2010-2012. This evidence contrasts with the...

Corporate bond investors are compensated for liquidity and counter-party risk in the yield received in excess of the credit premium and risk-free rate. This paper shows that the liquidity premium as a hedge against uncertain future states is determined by the ratio of excess coupon payments...

In the literature, there is no consensus on a common approach to measure bond liquidity. This paper is the first to comprehensively compare all commonly employed liquidity measures based on intraday and daily data for the U.S. corporate bond market. We find that high-frequency measures based on...

Using 482 US Dollar and Euro denominated bonds issued by 72 sovereigns, we examine the financial market and macroeconomic sources of time-series and cross-sectional variations in market-wide liquidity of sovereign bonds as a novelty in the sovereign fixed income literature. Vector autoregression...

Using bond transaction data from TRACE from 2005 to 2015, we investigate the impact of pre-trade transparency on over-the-counter bond markets, and find that NYSE pre-trade transparency reduces US corporate bond transaction costs by $846 million per year. NYSE pre-trade transparent bonds also...

This paper compares performances of bid-ask spread measures and analyzes bond-level characteristics' effects on the bid-ask spread for Turkish sovereign bonds traded in Borsa Istanbul. We use intraday order data to establish a relative quoted bid-ask spread as a benchmark and compare bid-ask...

This paper is about market liquidity risk premia in Eurozone sovereign bond spreads between 2008 and 2015. By calibrating an arbitrage-free reduced form model to the cash- and derivatives markets of each member state, we disentangle credit and market liquidity spread components in government...