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In: The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Forthcoming
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments April 28, 2015 erstellt
Description:
In this paper, we investigate the dynamic link between recessions and stock market liquidity by examining the predictive content of illiquidity for US recessions. After controlling for other commonly featured recession predictors such as term spreads and credit spreads, we find that the illiquidity measure proposed by Amihud (2002) has strong power in predicting recessions. Moreover, the predictability of the illiquidity measure of small firms is found to be stronger than that of large firms, which supports the hypothesis of "flight to liquidity.''