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Disentangling types of liquidity and testing limits‐to‐arbitrage theories in the CDS–bond basis
Author(s) -
Augustin Patrick,
Schnitzler Jan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
european financial management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.311
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1468-036X
pISSN - 1354-7798
DOI - 10.1111/eufm.12278
Subject(s) - market liquidity , liquidity crisis , funding liquidity , liquidity risk , arbitrage , economics , bond , asset (computer security) , financial economics , monetary economics , business , finance , computer security , computer science
We disentangle asset‐specific, market, and funding liquidity in the CDS–bond basis outside and during the 2007–9 global financial crisis. Our findings stress the importance of separating different types of liquidity, since all three measures have independently negative impacts on the basis. Funding liquidity emerges as the economically most important liquidity metric. While asset‐specific liquidity is cross‐correlated in both the cash and derivative markets, funding and market liquidity only matter for the cash market. We exploit the decomposition of the basis to test predictions of limits‐to‐arbitrage theories. We find strong evidence in favor of margin‐based asset pricing and flight‐to‐quality effects.