Global liquidity risk in the foreign exchange market
Banti, C., Phylaktis, K. & Sarno, L. (2012). Global liquidity risk in the foreign exchange market. Journal of International Money and Finance, 31(2), pp. 267-291. doi: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2011.11.010
Abstract
Using a broad data set of 20 US dollar exchange rates and order flow of institutional investors over 14 years, we construct a measure of global liquidity risk in the foreign exchange (FX) market. Our FX liquidity measure may be seen as the analog of the well-known Pastor–Stambaugh liquidity measure for the US stock market. We show that this measure has reasonable properties, and that there is a strong common component in liquidity across currencies. Finally, we provide evidence that liquidity risk is priced in the cross-section of currency returns, and estimate the liquidity risk premium in the FX market around 4.7 percent per annum.
| Publication Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2012, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Publisher Keywords: | Foreign exchange; Liquidity; Order flow; Microstructure |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance |
| Departments: | Bayes Business School > Finance |
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