Liquidity Risk After 20 Years

25 Pages Posted: 15 Apr 2019 Last revised: 10 May 2019

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Lubos Pastor

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Robert F. Stambaugh

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: May 6, 2019

Abstract

The Critical Finance Review commissioned Li, Novy-Marx, and Velikov (2017) and Pontiff and Singla (2019) to replicate the results in Pastor and Stambaugh (2003). Both studies successfully replicate our market-wide liquidity measure and find similar estimates of the liquidity risk premium. In the sample period after our study, the liquidity risk premium estimates are even larger, and the liquidity measure displays sharp drops during the 2008 financial crisis. We respond to both replication studies and offer some related thoughts, such as when to use our traded versus non-traded liquidity factors and how to improve the precision of liquidity beta estimates.

Keywords: liquidity, liquidity risk, liquidity factor, liquidity beta

JEL Classification: G12

Suggested Citation

Pastor, Lubos and Stambaugh, Robert F., Liquidity Risk After 20 Years (May 6, 2019). Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 19-13, Fama-Miller Working Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3371948 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3371948

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