Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260013 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2011:24
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
This paper estimates a conditional version of the liquidity adjusted CAPM by Acharya and Pedersen (2005) using NYSE and AMEX data from 1927 to 2010 to study the illiquidity premium and its variation over time. The components of the illiquidity premium is in this model derived as the level of expected illiquidity together with three types of illiquidity risks. We measure illiquidity of individual stocks by the efficient spread proxy developed in Holden (2009) and employ illiquidity sorted portfolios as test assets. The average annual illiquidity premium is estimated to 1.55%, the respective contributions from illiquidity level being 1.15% and from the three different illiquidity risks 0.40%. Results also indicate that commonality risk is the least important component in the illiquidity risk premium, while a component related to the hedging of wealth shocks is the most important. The illiquidity premium varies substantially over time, with peaks in downturns and crises, but with no general tendency to decrease over time.
Subjects: 
illiquidity level premium
illiquidity risk premium
conditional LCAPM
effective tick
JEL: 
C22
G11
G12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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