(Il)liquidity Premium in Credit Markets PDF Download

Author: Diogo Palhares
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Languages : en
Pages : 45

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Across multiple measures of “liquidity” and a variety of methods to control for correlated characteristics of more (less) liquid bonds, we find only limited evidence of a liquidity premium in the cross section of corporate bonds. Specifically, while illiquid bonds have slightly higher credit spreads and directionally higher average returns, portfolios that tilt toward (away from) less (more) liquid bonds exhibit considerably higher levels of volatility. Economically, the low Sharpe ratios of illiquidity-factor-mimicking portfolios are hard to justify for an investor. This is puzzling, as theory suggests investors should demand a risk premium for holding less-liquid assets.

Author: Thomas Meyer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119952816
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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Arms investors with powerful new tools for measuring and managing the risks associated with the various illiquid asset classes With risk-free interest rates and risk premiums at record lows, many investors are turning to illiquid assets, such as real estate, private equity, infrastructure and timber, in search of superior returns and greater portfolio diversity. But as many analysts, investors and wealth managers are discovering, such investments bring with them a unique set of risks that cannot be measured by standard asset allocation models. Written by a dream team of globally renowned experts in the field, this book provides a clear, accessible overview of illiquid fund investments, focusing on what the main risks of these asset classes are and how to measure those risks in today's regulatory environment. Provides solutions for institutional investors in need of guidance in today's regulatory environment Offers detailed descriptions of risk measurement in illiquid asset classes, illustrated with real life case studies Helps you to develop reliable risk management tools while complying with the regulations designed to contain the individual and systemic risks arising from illiquid investments Features real-life case studies that capture an array of risk management scenarios you are likely to encounter

Author: Yakov Amihud
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
ISBN: 1933019123
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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Liquidity and Asset Prices reviews the literature that studies the relationship between liquidity and asset prices. The authors review the theoretical literature that predicts how liquidity affects a security's required return and discuss the empirical connection between the two. Liquidity and Asset Prices surveys the theory of liquidity-based asset pricing followed by the empirical evidence. The theory section proceeds from basic models with exogenous holding periods to those that incorporate additional elements of risk and endogenous holding periods. The empirical section reviews the evidence on the liquidity premium for stocks, bonds, and other financial assets.

Author: Miriam Marra
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Languages : en
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In the light of the events of the recent financial crisis and of the increased importance of liquidity for the functionality of firms and financial markets, this thesis studies how a lack of liquidity (illiquidity) can affect the prices of credit derivatives and how illiquidity can propagate across credit and equity markets. The thesis incorporates three self-contained research papers. The first paper (Chapter 2) examines the effect of liquidity on the pricing of senior structured and unstructured credit indices (Senior Tranche of CDX.NA.IG Index and AAA Corporate Bond Index) over the period 2006-2009. The paper reveals that for both instruments the credit spreads align over time with the returns and the volatility of the equity market and with interest rates, as suggested by the structural model theory (Merton, 1974). However, it also shows that during the subprime crisis the highly-rated tranche of the CDX.NA.IG Index suffered from a substantial discount due to the lack of depth in the relevant markets, the scarcity of risk-capital, and the high liquidity preference exhibited by investors. By contrast, market liquidity and funding liquidity are found to be less significant in explaining the increase in the spread of the AAA Bond Index. The second paper (Chapter 3) investigates the existence of illiquidity commonality across equity and credit markets and the potential channels that can explain this phenomenon. Illiquidity appears to co-move across equities and credit default swaps in particular over crisis periods. For most firms, illiquidity is transmitted from one market (CDS) to the other (equity). Higher funding costs, market volatility and firms' systematic risk cause the equity-CDS illiquidity commonality to increase. However, the illiquidity commonality is also strongly related to the debt-to-equity hedge ratio which captures the arbitrage linkage between equity and CDSs. The paper shows that the illiquidity contagion across two fundamentally-linked assets can be generated by higher demand of liquidity for hedging and speculative trading. The third paper (Chapter 4) studies possible explanations for the credit spread puzzle. First, the paper shows that the credit spread puzzle can be partially explained by investors' aversion to a firm's extreme losses. The paper implements a novel calibration of the Merton (1974) model to a measure of sensitivity of CDS premia to equity volatility (which captures changes in the fat left tail of the firm's risk-neutral distribution). The predicted CDS premia are higher than those obtained using more traditional calibration methodologies, but still lower than those observed in the market. Therefore, the paper turns to studying the effects of investors' ambiguity aversion and CDS market illiquidity on CDS premia. The results show that when a market is illiquid and uncertainty is greater, sellers of credit default swaps charge more and CDS premia increase.

Author: Ben Meng
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Languages : en
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Liquidity has long been a great interest to investment professionals as well as academic researchers. The estimation of illiquidity premium for infrequently traded asset classes, such as real estate and private equity, presents a challenge to the industry because of opaque information and sporadic trading activities. We propose to use autocorrelations of return series as a tool to estimate the transaction costs and illiquidity premium of private assets. This tool can also be used to adjust the risk of illiquid asset classes so that private and illiquid assets can be reasonably compared with public and liquid assets. We also show that this metric could have implications for understanding the delay between transaction decision and transaction execution, known to market participants as time-on-market.

Author: Yakov Amihud
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521191769
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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This book explores the effect of liquidity on asset prices, liquidity variations over time and how liquidity risk affects prices.

Author: Abdourahmane Sarr
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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This paper provides an overview of indicators that can be used to illustrate and analyze liquidity developments in financial markets. The measures include bid-ask spreads, turnover ratios, and price impact measures. They gauge different aspects of market liquidity, namely tightness (costs), immediacy, depth, breadth, and resiliency. These measures are applied in selected foreign exchange, money, and capital markets to illustrate their operational usefulness. A number of measures must be considered because there is no single theoretically correct and universally accepted measure to determine a market's degree of liquidity and because market-specific factors and peculiarities must be considered.

Author: Jens Dick-Nielsen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788759384473
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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The three essays study the US corporate bond market with special attention to bond liquidity. All essays are empirical studies which rely heavily on the availability of transactions data. Earlier studies had to use quoted bond prices for empirical studies, but with the introduction of the TRACE system and with the following dissemination of transaction prices the data quality on corporate bonds has improved immensely. In the years after 2000 a range of studies assessed the performance of structural credit risk models and found that they were not able to fully explain the size of the average credit spread for corporate bonds. Huang and Huang (2003) suggested (among others) that the remaining non-default-component of the credit spread was an illiquidity premium. Using transaction data this thesis studies the impact of illiquidity and trading frictions on corporate bonds.

Author: Thierry Foucault
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197542069
Category : Capital market
Languages : en
Pages : 531

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"The process by which securities are traded is very different from the idealized picture of a frictionless and self-equilibrating market offered by the typical finance textbook. This book offers a more accurate and authoritative take on this process. The book starts from the assumption that not everyone is present at all times simultaneously on the market, and that participants have quite diverse information about the security's fundamentals. As a result, the order flow is a complex mix of information and noise, and a consensus price only emerges gradually over time as the trading process evolves and the participants interpret the actions of other traders. Thus, a security's actual transaction price may deviate from its fundamental value, as it would be assessed by a fully informed set of investors. The book takes these deviations seriously, and explains why and how they emerge in the trading process and are eventually eliminated. The authors draw on a vast body of theoretical insights and empirical findings on security price formation that have come to form a well-defined field within financial economics known as "market microstructure." Focusing on liquidity and price discovery, the book analyzes the tension between the two, pointing out that when price-relevant information reaches the market through trading pressure rather than through a public announcement, liquidity may suffer. It also confronts many striking phenomena in securities markets and uses the analytical tools and empirical methods of market microstructure to understand them. These include issues such as why liquidity changes over time and differs across securities, why large trades move prices up or down, and why these price changes are subsequently reversed, and why we observe temporary deviations from asset fair values"--

Author: Carl Chiarella
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135984506
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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This important new book from a group of Keynesian, but nonetheless technically-oriented economists explores one of the dominant paradigms in financial economics: the ‘intertemporal general equilibrium approach’.