Liquidity: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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Business Definition for: Liquidity

  • a condition in which assets are held in a cash or near cash form

Wiktionary Definition for: Liquidity

  • #The state or property of being liquid.
  • # economics An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash.
  • Ex:''Some stocks are traded so rarely that they lack '''liquidity'''.''

Additional Resources

The Mechanics of e-Market Liquidity
With some insight into Liquidity Mechanics, e-Market managers can overcome the biggest challenge in trying to grow a B2B e-market – shifting transaction volume away from the competition. Liquidity is the effective scale of an e-business in terms of overall adoption and transaction volume. This document explains how to develop...
Tags: Finance, Investment, Liquidity, e-Market
White papers 2003-01-01
Asset Pricing With Liquidity Risk
This paper solves explicitly an equilibrium asset-pricing model with liquidity risk - the risk arising from unpredictable changes in liquidity over time. In our liquidity-adjusted capital asset pricing model, a security's required return depends on its expected liquidity as well as on the covariance of its own return and liquidity...
Tags: Liquidity, Asset Pricing, Asset, Finance, Investment
White papers 2004-09-01
Liquidity Analysis & Ratios
Use this template to calculate liquidity working capital and liquidity ratios. Liquid assets are those assets that can be quickly converted to cash without loss. Liquidity ratios help measure a company's ability to pay its bills.
Tags: Liquidity, Finance, Investment
Tools & templates 2007-09-01
CLS Liquidity : Managing Liquidity In a CLS Environment
For making decision, sound liquidity stage should be maintained in the organization becaused liquidity is a part of working capital. Liquidity creation and delivery is the most crucial banking activity, influencing almost every aspect of a bank's business. As the scope and complexity of financial activities grew, new tools and...
Tags: Finance, Investment, Liquidity, Article
White papers 2003-01-01
Liquidity and Expected Returns: Lessons from Emerging Markets
Given the cross-sectional and temporal variation in their liquidity, emerging equity markets provide an ideal setting to examine the impact of liquidity on expected returns. The measure of liquidity is the proportion of zero daily firm returns, averaged over the month. This paper finds that this liquidity measure significantly predicts...
Tags: Investment, Liquidity, Emerging Market, Finance
White papers 2003-09-08
Measuring Market Liquidity
From the executive summary: ‘Recent research has suggested that aggregate market liquidity varies over time and that the covariance of returns with innovations in market liquidity is priced. However, liquidity has multiple dimensions, which incorporate key elements of volume, time, and transaction costs. An ideal measure of market-wide liquidity should...
Tags: Finance, Investment, Liquidity
White papers 2003-10-01
Liquidity - Multiple Dimensions
Recent research has suggested that aggregate market liquidity varies over time and that the covariance of returns with innovations in market liquidity is priced. However, liquidity has multiple dimensions which incorporate key elements of volume, time and transaction costs.
Tags: Liquidity, Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc., Finance, Investment
White papers 2003-10-01
Liquidity and Expected Returns: Lessons From Emerging Markets
Given the cross-sectional and temporal variation in their liquidity, emerging equity markets provide an ideal setting to examine the impact of liquidity on expected returns. This paper considers a simple asset-pricing model with liquidity and the market portfolio as risk factors and transaction costs that are proportional to liquidity. The...
Tags: Finance, Investment, Liquidity, Emerging Market
White papers 2005-06-01
Liquidity Commonality and Return Co-Movement
This paper shows that liquidity commonality is due to co-movements in supply and demand induced by cross-sectional correlation in order types market and limit orders, while return commonality is caused by correlation in order flows order direction and size. Since return and liquidity commonality are caused by different economic forces,...
Tags: Finance, Investment, Liquidity Commonality, Liquidity, Commonality
White papers 2005-03-01
A Risk-Neutral Parametric Liquidity Model for Derivatives
The paper develops a parameterized model for liquidity effects arising from the trading in an asset. Liquidity is defined via a combination of a trader's individual transaction cost and a price slippage impact, which is felt by all market participants. The chosen definition allows liquidity to be observable in a...
Tags: Liquidity, Derivatives, Finance, Investment
White papers 2002-05-24
Bank Mergers, Competition and Liquidity
This white paper provides a model of the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, individual reserve management and aggregate liquidity risk. Banks compete in rates of differentiated loans, hold reserves against liquidity shocks and refinance in the interbank money market if shocks exceed individual reserves. Mergers can affect market...
Tags: Investment, Liquidity, Finance, Bank
White papers 2002-04-23
On Banks' Liquidity Preference
This paper reveals that the need to take banks' liquidity preferences in consideration seems perplexing for many. If money is the most liquid asset of an entrepreneurial economy and most of it is constituted by banks' own liabilities, demand deposits, why should banks have a liquidity preference and how it...
Tags: Liquidity, Bank, Finance, Financial Services, Investment, Liquidity Preference
White papers 2003-11-21
Systemic Liquidity And The Composition Of Foreign Investment: Theory And Empirical Evidence
This paper studies the impact of liquidity on investors' choice between FDI and FPI. As argued in Goldstein and Razin (2006), this choice could be influenced by the trade off between management efficiency and liquidity effects. Here we extend their model by assuming liquidity shocks to individual investors are triggered...
Tags: Theory, Liquidity, Investment, Finance
White papers 2006-12-24
Is There a Global Liquidity Factor?
This paper investigates country, industry, and global commonalities in liquidity of individual stocks, and analyzes their implications for the pricing of financial assets in an international framework. The results for three different monthly liquidity measures — based on daily return and trading volume data suggest that individual stock liquidity exhibits...
Tags: Asset Pricing Analysis, Liquidity, Stock, Finance, Investment
White papers 2003-10-01
Liquidity Risk and Expected Stock Returns
This study investigates whether market-wide liquidity is a state variable important for asset pricing. The author finds that expected stock returns are related cross-sectionally to the sensitivities of returns to fluctuations in aggregate liquidity. The monthly liquidity measure, an average of individual-stock measures estimated with daily data, relies on the...
Tags: Finance, Investment, Sensitivity, Liquidity, Stock
White papers 2001-08-13
Development of Liquidity Management Instruments: Challenges and Opportunities
Liquidity management is part of the larger risk management framework of the financial services industry, which concerns all financial institutions whether they are conventional or Islamic. Studying liquidity management issues is a critical but complex subject. Failure to address the issue may lead to dire consequences, including banking collapse, and...
Tags: Investment, Liquidity Management, Liquidity, Finance
White papers 2003-09-30
Liquidity Black Holes
This paper concerns with the grand subjects of monetary policy although not directly or the flow of private savings, but with liquidity conditions for trading in the capital markets. Liquidity is under-researched because it is hard to measure the price impact of trading without detailed information on who sold what,...
Tags: Finance, Investment, Liquidity
White papers 2001-12-01
Creating Liquidity & Investment Structures
Whether ones business is multinational, regional or local, the challenges involved in optimizing the management of your liquidity have never been greater. By defining ones goals and objectives, one can start to identify the right solutions for their particular requirements. These solutions should be flexible to adapt to the evolution...
Tags: Finance, Liquidity, Article, Investment
White papers 2003-01-01
Endogenous Liquidity In Asset Markets
This article analyzes a model in which long-term risky assets are illiquid due to adverse selection. The degree of adverse selection and hence the liquidity of the assets are determined endogenously by the amount of trade for reasons other than private information. One find that higher productivity leads to increased...
Tags: Investment, Liquidity, Finance, Productivity, Asset
White papers 2003-01-01
Option Pricing With Liquidity Risk
This paper provides a model for pricing options in an economy with liquidity risk. Liquidity risk is modeled as a stochastic supply curve with the underlying stock price being a function of possible transactions. Consistent with the market microstructure literature, the supply curve is upward sloping, indicating that purchases are...
Tags: Cornell University, Pricing Strategy, Liquidity, Marketing, Finance, Pricing, Investment
White papers 2003-01-24
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