Does the uncertainty of firm-level fundamentals help explain cross-sectional differences in liquidity commonality?

Zangina Isshaq and Robert Faff

Journal of Banking & Finance, 2016, vol. 68, issue C, 153-161

Abstract: Our goal is to better understand the economic sources of commonality in liquidity. To this end, we argue that a firm with low (high) volatility in its “fundamental” profitability will have a higher (lower) liquidity commonality because it is more (less) likely to serve as reference stock in the setting of cross-asset learning about fundamentals. As predicted, we find that commonality in liquidity is negatively related to profitability volatility. This negative relation holds after controlling for correlated trading, size, book-to-market effects, idiosyncratic volatility, stock returns, and managerial income smoothing.

Keywords: Profitability volatility; Commonality in liquidity; Learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G12 M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2016.02.012

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