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HOW DO YOU CAPTURE LIQUIDITY? A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON LOW‐FREQUENCY STOCK LIQUIDITY
Author(s) -
Le Huong,
Gregoriou Andros
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of economic surveys
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.657
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1467-6419
pISSN - 0950-0804
DOI - 10.1111/joes.12385
Subject(s) - market liquidity , accounting liquidity , liquidity premium , liquidity risk , economics , econometrics , stock (firearms) , liquidity crisis , transaction cost , dimension (graph theory) , capital asset pricing model , financial economics , monetary economics , mathematics , finance , geography , archaeology , pure mathematics
Researchers have various ways to measure liquidity but most of them come with both merits and demerits. This study provides a literature review of low‐frequency liquidity measures with a primary focus on liquidity measurement as well as its implication on asset pricing. Based on the dimension it captures, a range of existing low‐frequency measures are divided into four categories of liquidity proxies including transaction cost, volume, price impact, and multidimension‐based measures. We review some well‐established liquidity proxies, a new bid–ask spread estimator and price impact ratios proposed recently. Finally, we discuss how good low‐frequency liquidity measures are at capturing standard liquidity benchmarks, which are constructed from high‐frequency intraday data.