Discussion paper

DP13680 Liquidity Risk After 20 Years

The Critical Finance Review commissioned Li, Novy-Marx, and Velikov (2017) and Pontiff and Singla (2019) to replicate the results in Pastor and Stambaugh (2003). Both studies successfully replicate our market-wide liquidity measure and find similar estimates of the liquidity risk premium. In the sample period after our study, the liquidity risk premium estimates are even larger, and the liquidity measure displays sharp drops during the 2008 financial crisis. We respond to both replication studies and offer some related thoughts, such as when to use our traded versus non-traded liquidity factors and how to improve the precision of liquidity beta estimates.

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Citation

Pástor, L and R Stambaugh (2019), ‘DP13680 Liquidity Risk After 20 Years‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 13680. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp13680