Liquidity biases in asset pricing tests |
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Authors: | Elena Asparouhova Hendrik Bessembinder Ivalina Kalcheva |
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Institution: | 1. David Eccles School of Business, 1645 East Campus Center Drive, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA;2. Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, USA |
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Abstract: | Microstructure noise in security prices biases the results of empirical asset pricing specifications, particularly when security-level explanatory variables are cross-sectionally correlated with the amount of noise. We focus on tests of whether measures of illiquidity, which are likely to be correlated with the noise, are priced in the cross-section of stock returns, and show a significant upward bias in estimated return premiums for an array of illiquidity measures in Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) monthly return data. The upward bias is larger when illiquid securities are included in the sample, but persists even for NYSE/Amex stocks after decimalization. We introduce a methodological correction to eliminate the biases that simply involves weighted least squares (WLS) rather than ordinary least squares (OLS) estimation, and find evidence of smaller, but still significant, return premiums for illiquidity after implementing the correction. |
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Keywords: | Microstructure noise Illiquidity Asset pricing Return premium Bias correction |
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