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Tarun Chordia, Sahn-Wook Huh, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Theory-Based Illiquidity and Asset Pricing, The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 22, Issue 9, September 2009, Pages 3629–3668, https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhn121
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Abstract
Many proxies of illiquidity have been used in the literature that relates illiquidity to asset prices. These proxies have been motivated from an empirical standpoint. In this study, we approach liquidity estimation from a theoretical perspective. Our method explicitly recognizes the analytic dependence of illiquidity on more primitive drivers such as trading activity and information asymmetry. More specifically, we estimate illiquidity using structural formulae in line with Kyle's (1985) lambda for a comprehensive sample of stocks. The empirical results provide evidence that theory-based estimates of illiquidity are priced in the cross-section of expected stock returns, even after accounting for risk factors, firm characteristics known to influence returns, and other illiquidity proxies prevalent in the literature.