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Market Liquidity—Theory and Empirical Evidence *

Dimitri Vayanos and Jiang Wang

Chapter Chapter 19 in Handbook of the Economics of Finance, 2013, vol. 2, pp 1289-1361 from Elsevier

Abstract: In this paper we survey the theoretical and empirical literatures on market liquidity. We organize both literatures around three basic questions: (a) how to measure illiquidity, (b) how illiquidity relates to underlying market imperfections and other asset characteristics, and (c) how illiquidity affects expected asset returns. Using a unified model from Vayanos and Wang (2010), we survey theoretical work on six main imperfections: participation costs, transaction costs, asymmetric information, imperfect competition, funding constraints, and search—and for each imperfection we address the three basic questions within that model. We review the empirical literature through the lens of the theory, using the theory to both interpret existing results and suggest new tests and analysis.

Keywords: Market liquidity; Market imperfections; Illiquidity measures; Illiquidity and expected returns; D420; D530; D820; D830; G010; G110; G120; G140 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-44-459406-8.00019-6

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