Theory-Based Illiquidity and Asset Pricing

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chordia, Tarun; Huh, Sahn-Wook; Subrahmanyam, Avanidhar
• 署名单位: Emory University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0893-9454
• DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhn121
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 3629
• 关键词: cross-section; INVESTMENT ANALYSIS; stock-prices; liquidity; MARKET; returns; equilibrium; momentum; RISK

摘要

Many proxies of illiquidity have been used in the literature that relates illiquidity to asset prices. These proxies have been motivated from an empirical standpoint. In this study, we approach liquidity estimation from a theoretical perspective. Our method explicitly recognizes the analytic dependence of illiquidity on more primitive drivers such as trading activity and information asymmetry. More specifically, we estimate illiquidity using structural formulae in line with Kyle's (1985) lambda for a comprehensive sample of stocks. The empirical results provide evidence that theory-based estimates of illiquidity are priced in the cross-section of expected stock returns, even after accounting for risk factors, firm characteristics known to influence returns, and other illiquidity proxies prevalent in the literature.