Liquidity premium in the presence of stock market crises and background risk

Sergei Isaenko () and Rui Zhong ()

Quantitative Finance, 2015, vol. 15, issue 1, 79-90

Abstract: We analyse a portfolio optimization problem for a long-term investor in the presence of stock market crises. A crisis includes a crash of the stock market price, a sharp increase of its volatility and dramatic deterioration of liquidity. We model the stock market illiquidity by means of convex transaction costs that mimic the presence of an effective bid-ask spread that increases with the size of a trade. We find that the existence of stock market crises results in a significant liquidity premium. Furthermore, the presence of background risk has a negative impact on the liquidity premium.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/14697688.2013.856517

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