The Term Structure of Bond Market Liquidity and Its Implications for Expected Bond Returns

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis - Tập 46 Số 1 - Trang 111-139 - 2011
Ruslan Goyenko1, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam2, Andrey Ukhov3
1Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, 1001 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1G5, Canada
2Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles, C4.18 Entrepreneurs Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095
3School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University, 465C Statler Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853

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AbstractPrevious studies of Treasury market illiquidity span short time periods and focus on particular maturities. In contrast, we study the time series of illiquidity for different maturities over an extended period of time. We also compare time-series determinants of on-the-run and off-the-run illiquidity. Illiquidity increases and the difference between spreads of long- and short-term bonds significantly widens during recessions, suggesting a “flight to liquidity,” wherein investors shift into the more liquid short-term bonds during economic contractions. Macroeconomic variables such as inflation and federal funds rates forecast off-the-run illiquidity significantly but have only modest forecasting ability for on-the-run illiquidity. Bond returns across maturities are forecastable by off-the-run but not on-the-run bond illiquidity. Thus, off-the-run illiquidity, by reflecting macro shocks first, is the primary source of the liquidity premium in the Treasury market.

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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Tập 46 Số 1

111-139

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