Liquidity, Information Risk, and Asset Pricing: Evidence from the U.S. Government Bond Market

60 Pages Posted: 23 Mar 2005

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Chunchi Wu

SUNY at Buffalo - School of Management

Haitao Li

University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business; Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business; Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

Yan He

Indiana University Southeast - School of Business

Junbo Wang

Dept. of Economics and Finance, City Univ. of HK

Abstract

We examine the effects of liquidity and information risks on expected returns of U.S. government bonds. Information risk is measured by probability of information-based trading (PIN) derived from the market microstructure model of Easley, Hvidkjaer, and O'Hara (2002). Liquidity risk is captured by sensitivity of individual bond returns to a market-wide liquidity measure along the line of Pastor and Stambaugh (2003). Controlling for systematic risks and bond characteristics, we find that both liquidity and information risks have a significantly positive effect on expected bond returns. Our findings suggest that incorporating microstructure factors into existing term structure models is a promising avenue for improving our understanding of bond price behavior.

Keywords: Information risk, Liquidity risk, PIN, asset pricing, order imbalance

JEL Classification: G12, M41

Suggested Citation

Wu, Chunchi and Li, Haitao and He, Yan and Wang, Junbo, Liquidity, Information Risk, and Asset Pricing: Evidence from the U.S. Government Bond Market. AFA 2006 Boston Meetings Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=687523 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.687523

Chunchi Wu (Contact Author)

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Haitao Li

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Yan He

Indiana University Southeast - School of Business ( email )

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Junbo Wang

Dept. of Economics and Finance, City Univ. of HK ( email )

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