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- Title
Asset Pricing with Downside Liquidity Risks.
- Authors
Anthonisz, Sean A.; Putniņš, Tālis J.
- Abstract
We develop a parsimonious liquidity-adjusted downside capital asset pricing model to investigate whether phenomena such as downward liquidity spirals and flights to liquidity impact expected asset returns. We find strong empirical support for the model. Downside liquidity risk (sensitivity of stock liquidity to negative market returns) has an economically meaningful return premium that is 10 times larger than its symmetric analogue. The expected liquidity level and downside market risk are also associated with meaningful return premiums. Downside liquidity risk and its associated premium are higher during periods of low marketwide liquidity and for stocks that are relatively small, illiquid, volatile, and have high book-to-market ratios. These results are consistent with investors requiring compensation for holding assets susceptible to adverse liquidity phenomena. Our findings suggest that mitigation of downside liquidity risk can lower firms' cost of capital. This paper was accepted by Lauren Cohen, finance.
- Subjects
LIQUIDITY (Economics); FINANCIAL crises; RISK aversion; MARKET volatility; CAPITAL costs
- Publication
Management Science, 2017, Vol 63, Issue 8, p2549
- ISSN
0025-1909
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/mnsc.2016.2438