• The Korean Journal of Financial Studies
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.127-144
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• 1995

Previous literature in financial economics documents the existence of a liquidity premium in expected returns, measured by the bid-ask spread. This study provides a more comprehensive test of the egect of liquidity on common stock returns by including trading volume as an additional liquidity measure. we find that trading volume is a relevant measure of liquidity, and affects expected returns even aher controlling for the effects of systematic risk, firm size, and the relative bid-ask spread. We also find that trading volume complements the bid-ask spread as a liquidity measure, and provides additional information about the liquidity premium. The liquidity effect emerges in non-January months as a volume effect, in addition to the spread effect in January documented by Eleswarapu and Reinganum(1993).

• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.1-4
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• 2012

We study optimal trading strategy of a market maker with stock inventory. Following Avellaneda and Stoikov (2008), we assume the stock price follows a normal distribution. However, we take a constant expected rate of the stock return and assume that the stock volatility is an inverse function of the stock price level. We show that the optimal bid-ask spread of the market maker is wider for a higher expected rate of stock returns.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.31 no.12
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• pp.1117-1126
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• 2022

This study analyzed the effect of Corporate Social Responsibility and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) score on information asymmetry from the perspective of investors, who are important stakeholders of the company. For KOSPI-listed companies from 2017 to 2020, the effect of ESG overall score and each item score (E, S, G) on the bid-ask spread, which is a proxy for information asymmetry, was confirmed. The results are as follows. First, the increase in corporate CSR activities resulted in lowering information asymmetry of investors. It was found that the higher the ESG score, an indicator of CSR activity, the lower the bid-ask spread, which is a proxy variable for information asymmetry. Second, as a result of analysis using ESG scores for each section, information asymmetry decreased as companies with higher scores in the environmental (E) and social (S) aspects, while the governance (G) score did not have a statistically significant effect. The analysis confirmed that corporate CSR activities can contribute to improving market efficiency by resolving information asymmetry of investors and convergence of the stock market into a state of equilibrium. This means that the company's CSR activities are reflected in the investment decision-making, which suggests that the company should consider the investor as a stakeholder in decision-making related to CSR activities.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.181-202
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• 2000

본 연구는 지수선물 시장에서 호가스프레드에 영향을 줄 수 있는 요인변수를 탐색하였다. 호가스프레드는 1996년 5월 3일부터 1997년 7월 31일까지 일중 4시간 5분의 거래시간을 5분 간격으로 나누어 49개의 시간대별 잔량을 구하여 호가스프레드를 계산하였으며, 요인변수는 주문 거래자료를 이용하여 산출하였다. 분석결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째로, 호가스프레드 측정결과 개장직후 10분과 폐장직전 10분간의 호가스프레드가 다른 시간대보다 크게 나타났다. 우리나라 주가지수선물시장에서도 이상의 두 시간대에서는 거래자들이 현저히 높은 정보불균형이 있었고, 역선택과정이 심한 것으로 보여진다. 이는 McInish와 Wood(1992) 및 Jang과 Lee(1995) 그리고 Daigler(1997)의 U자형 패턴과 유사하게 나타났다. 둘째로, 거래빈도, 총주문량은 호가스프레드에 유의적인 음(-)의 영향을 주어 호가스프레드를 줄이는데 정보적 역할을 하고 있었던 것으로 생각된다. 그리고 주문빈도 및 변동성과 수익률이 모두 호가스프레드에 유의적인 양(+)의 영향을 주고 있었다. 회귀분석결과 관찰자료로 총주문량, 거래빈도가 유동성변수로서 의미가 있었고, 묵시적 거래비용을 줄여줄 수 있을 것이라 보여진다. 한편 주문빈도는 정보탐색을 위한 허수주문으로 여겨진다. 우리나라 선물시장에서는 투자자들이 가격 변동성에 대한 보상을 원하고 있었다. 일반적으로 투자자들은 가격위험하에서는 거래 체결을 원하지 않기 때문에 이러한 점이 호가스프레드를 커지게 하였던 원인으로 보여진다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.1-9
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• 2021

This paper investigates the impact of the domestic and global outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the trading size of the Malaysian stock (MS) market. The theoretical model posits that stock markets are affected by their response to disasters and events that arise in the international or local environments, as well as to several financial factors such as stock volatility and spread bid-ask prices. Using daily time-series data from 27 January to 12 May 2020, this paper utilizes the traditional Augmented Dickey and Fuller (ADF) technique and Zivot and Andrews with structural break' procedures for a stationarity test analysis, while the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method is applied according to the trading size of the MS market model. The analysis considered almost all 789 listed companies investing in the main stock market of Malaysia. The results confirmed our hypotheses that both the daily growth in the active domestic and global cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) has significant negative effects on the daily trading size of the stock market in Malaysia. Although the COVID-19 has a negative effect on the Malaysian stock market, the findings of this study suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic may have an asymmetric effect on the market.