Market Liquidity and Bond Prices in a Small Open Economy
James Brugler
What the paper says
Investors may apply a liquidity premium to assets that are easy and cheap to trade, especially in times of stress. This paper tests for a causal relationship from market liquidity to prices in the government bond market for a small open economy (Australia). To identify this effect, I use a source of exogenous variation in liquidity that is driven by whether a particular bond is used to compute settlement prices for Australian interest rate futures contracts (“basket status”). Despite a strong link between basket status and market liquidity, I do not find clear evidence that higher market liquidity affects Australian government bond prices.
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
| M · momentum | 0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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