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06.03.2021 | Original Research

Does liquidity drive stock market returns? The role of investor risk aversion

verfasst von: Qingjing Zhang, Taufiq Choudhry, Jing-Ming Kuo, Xiaoquan Liu

Erschienen in: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | Ausgabe 3/2021

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In this paper, we explore the relations between liquidity, stock returns, and investor risk aversion as captured by the variance risk premium (VRP). This is motivated by theoretical and empirical evidence in the literature which suggests that investor risk aversion negatively correlates with asset liquidity, and ample empirical evidence documenting liquidity risk premium. We use monthly US data from January 1999 to December 2018 and show that innovations in the VRP Granger-cause stock returns, which in turn drive liquidity. Our findings are consistent with predictions of prior theories and highlight the predictability of the VRP. They also contribute to the on-going debate on the causal relation between stock returns and liquidity. Finally, we explore the channels through which the VRP impacts liquidity and find that the VRP influences market and momentum factors, and that movements in these factors lead to changes in liquidity.

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For the full sample period and all sub-periods, the results of unit root tests show that all variables at level are stationary, i.e. I(0), except for the liquidity measures (ILLIQ^NYSE and ILLIQ^SP500), which are integrated at order one, i.e. I(1). We used the augmented Dickey and Fuller (1981) ADF and Phillips and Perron (1988) PP models to test the null of a unit root against the alternative of stationarity, whereas the Kwiatkowski et al. (1992) KPSS tests the null of stationarity against the alternative of a unit root. Detailed results from the unit root tests are not reported here to conserve space but are available upon request from the authors.

Asymmetric VAR means that the AVAR system has the same explanatory variables in each equation, but the explanatory variables can have different number of lags. Hence, it is more flexible in modeling dynamic systems.

The maximal eigenvalues of the coefficient matrix of all the VAR models are smaller than 1, which suggests that all the VAR models are stable. Moreover, our VAR models show no serial correlation in the residuals.

The number of lags is selected by a general-to-specific approach to satisfy the assumption of no serial correlation and the stationary condition of VAR models.

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Titel: Does liquidity drive stock market returns? The role of investor risk aversion
verfasst von: Qingjing Zhang
Taufiq Choudhry
Jing-Ming Kuo
Xiaoquan Liu
Publikationsdatum: 06.03.2021
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting / Ausgabe 3/2021
Print ISSN: 0924-865X
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-021-00966-5

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