Volatility regimes and liquidity co-movements in cap-based portfolios
(2010) Finance : revue de l’Association française de finance — Vol. 31, n° 1, p. 55-79 (2010)
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- In contrast with prior studies focused on market-wide liquidity co-movements, we study class-wide liquidity co-movements and condition the analysis on volatility regimes using the Markov switching methodology. By defining three regimes of volatility (low, normal and high), we can investigate whether, and to what extent, liquidity co-movements in capbased portfolios are affected by volatility fluctuations. As our analysis points out, classwide shocks dominate stock-specific shocks in low volatility regimes for both large and mid caps. For small caps, cross-sectional statistical evidence of liquidity co-movements is weak in both high and low volatility regimes. Evidence indicates that failure to recognise the importance of volatility to determine class-wide variations in liquidity could significantly alter the performance and risk of size-based portfolios.
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Louvain School of Management Accounting & Finance Louvain School of Management Accounting & Finance FUCaM Sciences de gestion IESEG School of Managament Finance
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Petitjean, M., Giot, P., & Beaupain, R. (2010). Volatility regimes and liquidity co-movements in cap-based portfolios. Finance : revue de l’Association française de finance, 31(1), 55-79. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/250280 (Original work published 2010)