A substantial amount is incurred in ETF transaction costs each year. This paper examines the performance of a vector autoregressive (VAR) model and other naïve models to time trades in 1,350 ETFs over the 2011 to 2017 period. We find varied spread savings for large and retail ETF traders by...

The “adverse selection” hypothesis expects that the introduction of index futures trading will decrease the liquidity of index component stocks as liquidity-motivated traders migrate to futures trading. Conversely, the “index arbitrage” hypothesis predicts that index arbitrage activity...

The “adverse selection” hypothesis expects that the introduction of index futures trading will decrease the liquidity of index component stocks as liquidity-motivated traders migrate to futures trading. Conversely, the “index arbitrage” hypothesis predicts that index arbitrage activity...

ETF sponsors promote ETFs as having superior liquidity than their constituents because of ETFs' liquidity in the open market and the underlying stocks' liquidity through the creation/redemption mechanism. We find a liquidity connection between the ETF and its underlying assets suggesting the...

Active ETFs are less liquid than their underlying portfolios. This finding, which contrasts with that for passive ETFs, is attributed to uncertainty of future holdings of active ETFs. In addition, while diversification generally reduces firm-specific information asymmetry and improves portfolio...