Friewald, Nils and Jankowitsch, Rainer and Subrahmanyam, Marti G. (2012) Illiquidity or credit deterioration: A study of liquidity in the US corporate bond market during financial crises. Journal of Financial Economics, 105 (1). pp. 18-36. ISSN 0304-405X
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Abstract
We analyze whether liquidity is an important price factor in the US corporate bond market. In particular, we focus on whether liquidity effects are more pronounced in periods of financial crises, and especially, for bonds with high credit risk. We use a unique data set covering more than 20,000 bonds, between October 2004 and December 2008. We employ a wide range of liquidity measures and and that liquidity effects account for approximately 14% of the explained market-wide corporate yield spread changes. Moreover, we find that the economic impact of the liquidity measures is significantly larger in periods of crisis and for speculative grade bonds. (authors' abstract)
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | To see the final version of this paper please visit the publisher's website. Access to this article requires a subscription. |
Keywords: | liquidity / corporate bonds / financial crisis / OTC markets |
Classification Codes: | JEL G01, G12, G14 |
Divisions: | Departments > Finance, Accounting and Statistics > Finance, Banking and Insurance |
Version of the Document: | Accepted for Publication |
Variance from Published Version: | Minor |
Depositing User: | Dissertation Administrator |
Date Deposited: | 28 Mar 2012 13:36 |
Last Modified: | 17 Sep 2017 12:19 |
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FIDES Link: | https://bach.wu.ac.at/d/research/results/55298/ |
URI: | https://epub.wu.ac.at/id/eprint/3483 |
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