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Illiquidity Or Credit Deterioration: A Study Of Liquidity In The Us Corporate Bond Market During Financial Crises

In: Managing and Measuring Risk Emerging Global Standards and Regulations After the Financial Crisis

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  • Nils Friewald

    (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)

  • Rainer Jankowitsch

    (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)

  • Marti G. Subrahmanyam

    (New York University, Stern School of Business, US)

Abstract

We investigate whether liquidity is an important price factor in the US corporate bond market. In particular, we focus on whether liquidity effects are more pronounced in periods of financial crises, especially for bonds with high credit risk, using a unique data set covering more than 20,000 bonds, between October 2004 and December 2008. We employ a wide range of liquidity measures and find that liquidity effects account for approximately 14% of the explained market-wide corporate yield spread changes. We conclude that the economic impact of the liquidity measures is significantly larger in periods of crisis, and for speculative grade bonds.

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  • Nils Friewald & Rainer Jankowitsch & Marti G. Subrahmanyam, 2013. "Illiquidity Or Credit Deterioration: A Study Of Liquidity In The Us Corporate Bond Market During Financial Crises," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Oliviero Roggi & Edward I Altman (ed.), Managing and Measuring Risk Emerging Global Standards and Regulations After the Financial Crisis, chapter 6, pages 159-200, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789814417501_0006
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