documents the existence of an asymmetric relationship between market liquidity and trading imbalances: when quoted spreads rise … (fall) and liquidity falls (increases) buy (sell) orders tend to prevail. Risk-averse market-makers, with inventory … characteristics, stock market volatility, macroeconomic releases and liquidity management operations of the monetary authorities …

, additional liquidity-related and return forecasting factors. Liquidity factors are obtained from a decomposition of the TED …-sectional fit of the yield curve. Second, we find that financial shocks, either in the form of liquidity or risk premium shocks …

-fulfilling liquidity crises than in stand-alone countries. We find evidence that a significant part of the surge in the spreads of the PIGS …

This paper constructs new indicators of liquidity for equity, bond and money markets in major advanced and emerging … evidence of an historical increase in market liquidity since the early 1990s, in part as a result of advances in international … financial integration, but markets have been increasingly exposed to global systemic liquidity shocks. Second, liquidity …