Market Liquidity Risk - An Overview

Stange, Sebastian; Kaserer, Christoph

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1362537

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Market Liquidity Risk - An Overview

CEFS Working Paper Series 2009 No. 4

38 Pages Posted: 19 Mar 2009 Last revised: 18 Aug 2009

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Sebastian Stange

Technische Universität München (TUM) - Chair of Business and International Financial Management

Christoph Kaserer

Technische Universität München (TUM)

Date Written: March 18, 2009

Abstract

Market liquidity is the ease of trading an asset. Its risk is the potential loss, because a security can only be traded at high or prohibitive costs. While the omnipresence and importance of market liquidity is widely acknowledged, it has long remained a more or less elusive concept. Treatment of liquidity risk is still under development. This paper provides an overview on important aspects of market liquidity and its risk. We also survey existing models to integrate market liquidity risk into risk frameworks. We place special emphasis on practical usability and discuss relevant strengths, weaknesses and their implications.

Keywords: Asset liquidity, liquidity cost, price impact, Xetra liquidity measure (XLM), risk measurement, Value-at-Risk, market liquidity risk, overview

JEL Classification: G11, G12, G18, G32

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Stange, Sebastian and Kaserer, Christoph, Market Liquidity Risk - An Overview (March 18, 2009). CEFS Working Paper Series 2009 No. 4, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1362537 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1362537