Liquidity skewness |
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Authors: | Richard Roll Avanidhar Subrahmanyam |
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Affiliation: | Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA |
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Abstract: | Bid–ask spreads in equities have declined on average but have become increasingly right-skewed. This finding holds across exchanges as well as size, price, and volume quartiles. Higher right-skewness is consistent with more competition among market makers; which may reduce cross-subsidization across periods of high and low asymmetric information, unlike a monopolistic regime that can maintain a relatively constant spread. Confirming this intuition, proportional differences in spreads between earnings announcements and normal periods have increased considerably even as trading costs have declined on average. Skewness also is cross-sectionally related to information proxies such as institutional holdings and analyst following. |
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Keywords: | G12 G14 |
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