We study the association between the stock liquidity of SMEs in the US and their likelihood of bankruptcy, using a dataset that comprises information on 5075 firms over the time period from 1984 to 2013 using the hazard model of Campbell et al. (2008). We find that less liquid stocks are...

This paper explores liquidity effects following the merger and acquisition between Al Salam Bank Bahrain and a conventional bank post the financial crises. We find evidence of a sustained increase in the liquidity of the stocks as a result of the change from Conventional to Islamic banking. The...

We examine the world's largest carbon exchange, ICE's ECX, by applying Chordia et al.'s (2008) conception of short-horizon return predictability as an inverse indicator of market efficiency. We find a strong relationship between liquidity and market efficiency such that when spreads narrow,...