Until recently the liquidity of financial assets has typically been viewed as a second-order consideration. Liquidity was frequently associated with simple transaction costs that impose - temporary if any- effect on asset prices, and whose shocks could be easily diversified away. Yet the...

ETFs and index funds have grown at very rapid rates in recent years. Originally launched to track some large liquid indices in developed markets, they now also concern less liquid asset classes such as emerging market bonds. Illiquidity certainly affects the quality of the replication, and in...

In a new environment where liquidity providers as well as liquidity consumers act strategically, understanding how liquidity flows and dries-up is key. In this paper, we propose a dynamic extension of the seminal model of Tauchen and Pitts (1983)' Mixture of Distributions Hypothesis (MDH) that...

Financial markets are today so interconnected that they are fragile to contagion. Massive investment funds with very short horizons in -and out- flows can generate contagion effects between markets. Since 2010, investors are willing to get a liquid exposure to the EM sovereign debt. As a...

Even though the FX market is one of the most liquid financial market, it would be an error to consider that it is immune against any liquidity problem. This paper analyzes on a long sample (2000-2009), the all set of quotes and transactions in three main currency pairs (EURJPY, EURUSD, USDJPY)...