China has become the world's biggest consumer of gold in recent years. After only several years of operation, the Chinese gold futures market is now one of the largest globally. This paper studies the price discovery process for the Chinese gold markets. Since the financial crisis in 2007, gold...

This paper estimates a conditional version of the liquidity adjusted CAPM by Acharya and Pedersen (2005) using NYSE and AMEX data from 1927 to 2010 to study the illiquidity premium and its variation over time. The components of the illiquidity premium is in this model derived as the level of...