The on-the-run liquidity phenomenon

Paolo Pasquariello and Clara Vega

Journal of Financial Economics, 2009, vol. 92, issue 1, 1-24

Abstract: We test the implications of a model of multi-asset speculative trading in which liquidity differentials between on-the-run and off-the-run U.S. Treasury bonds ensue from endowment shocks in the presence of two realistic market frictions--information heterogeneity and imperfect competition among informed traders--and a public signal. Our evidence suggests that (i) off/on-the-run liquidity differentials are economically and statistically significant, even after controlling for several of the bonds' intrinsic characteristics (such as duration, convexity, repo rates, or term premiums), and (ii) off/on-the-run liquidity differentials are smaller immediately following bond auction dates, and larger when the uncertainty surrounding the ensuing auction allocations is high, when the dispersion of beliefs across informed traders is high, and when macroeconomic announcements are noisy, consistent with our model.

Keywords: Treasury; bond; markets; Liquidity; On-the-run; bonds; Off-the-run; bonds; Macroeconomic; news; announcements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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