Price Discovery in Illiquid Markets: Do Financial Asset Prices Rise Faster Than They Fall ?

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_69F813AFA03D
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Price Discovery in Illiquid Markets: Do Financial Asset Prices Rise Faster Than They Fall ?
Périodique
Journal of Finance
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Green  R.C., Li  D., Schuerhoff  N.
ISSN
0022-1082
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
10/2010
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
65
Numéro
5
Pages
1669-1702
Langue
anglais
Notes
Smith Breeden Prize 2010 Distinguished Paper
Résumé
We study price discovery in municipal bonds, an important OTC market. As in markets for consumer goods, prices "rise faster than they fall." Round-trip profits to dealers on retail trades increase in rising markets but do not decrease in falling markets. Further, effective half-spreads increase or decrease more when movements in fundamentals favor dealers. Yield spreads relative to Treasuries also adjust with asymmetric speed in rising and falling markets. Finally, intraday price dispersion is asymmetric in rising and falling markets, as consumer search theory would predict.
Mots-clé
US treasury market, trading costs, corporate-bonds, transparency, information, liquidity, intermediation, aftermarket, news
Web of science
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31/05/2010 16:28
Dernière modification de la notice
21/08/2019 6:17
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