skip to content
Market liquidity : asset pricing, risk, and crises Preview this item
ClosePreview this item

Market liquidity : asset pricing, risk, and crises

Author: Yakov Amihud; Haim Mendelson; Lasse Heje Pedersen
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
"This book is about the pricing of liquidity. We present theory and evidence on how liquidity affects securities prices, why liquidity varies over time, how a drop in liquidity leads to a drop in prices, and why liquidity crises create liquidity spirals. The analysis has implications for traders, risk managers, central bankers, performance evaluation, economic policy, regulation of financial markets, management of  Read more...
Getting this item's online copy... Getting this item's online copy...

Find a copy in the library

Getting this item's location and availability... Getting this item's location and availability...

WorldCat

Find it in libraries globally
Worldwide libraries own this item

Details

Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Yakov Amihud; Haim Mendelson; Lasse Heje Pedersen
ISBN: 9780521191760 0521191769 9780521139656 0521139651
OCLC Number: 780415776
Description: xiv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: Introduction Yakov Amihud, Haim Mendelson and Lasse Heje Pedersen; Part I. Liquidity: The Effect of Trading Costs on Securities Prices and Returns: 1. Asset pricing and the bid-ask spread Yakov Amihud and Haim Mendelson; 2. Liquidity, maturity, and the yield on U.S. Treasury securities Yakov Amihud and Haim Mendelson; 3. Market microstructure and securities values: evidence from the Tel Aviv stock exchange Yakov Amihud, Haim Mendelson and Beni Lauterbach; Part II. Liquidity Risk: 4. Illiquidity and stock returns: cross-section and time-series effects Yakov Amihud; 5. Asset pricing with liquidity risk Viral V. Acharya and Lasse Heje Pedersen; Part III. Liquidity Crises: 6. Market liquidity and funding liquidity Markus Brunnermeier and Lasse Heje Pedersen; 7. Liquidity and the 1987 stock market crash Yakov Amihud, Haim Mendelson and Robert A. Wood; 8. Slow moving capital Mark Mitchell, Lasse Heje Pedersen and Todd Pulvino.
Responsibility: Yakov Amihud, Stern School of Business, New York University, Haim Mendelson, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Lasse Heje Pedersen, Stern School of Business, New York University.

Abstract:

This book explores the effect of liquidity on asset prices, liquidity variations over time and how liquidity risk affects prices.  Read more...
Retrieving notes about this item Retrieving notes about this item

Reviews

Editorial reviews

Publisher Synopsis

'These authors were writing and teaching about the importance of understanding liquidity way before we all learned more about it than we cared to. They have made major contributions to understanding Read more...

 
User-contributed reviews
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.