Liquidity and market crashes

"In this paper, we develop an equilibrium model for stock market liquidity and its impact on asset prices when constant market presence is costly. We show that even when agents' trading needs are perfectly matched, costly market presence prevents them from synchronizing their trades and h...

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1. Verfasser: Huang, Jennifer (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Wang, Jiang (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2008
Schriftenreihe:NBER working paper series 14013
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Zusammenfassung:"In this paper, we develop an equilibrium model for stock market liquidity and its impact on asset prices when constant market presence is costly. We show that even when agents' trading needs are perfectly matched, costly market presence prevents them from synchronizing their trades and hence gives rise to endogenous order imbalances and the need for liquidity. Moreover, the endogenous liquidity need, when it occurs, is characterized by excessive selling of significant magnitudes. Such liquidity-driven selling leads to market crashes in the absence of any aggregate shocks. Finally, we show that illiquidity in the market leads to high expected returns, negative and asymmetric return serial correlation, and a positive relation between trading volume and future returns. We also propose new measures of liquidity based on its asymmetric impact on prices and demonstrate a negative relation between these measures and expected stock returns"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site
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