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Liquidity in asset pricing: new Australian evidence using low-frequency data

Chai, Daniel

Liquidity in asset pricing: new Australian evidence using low-frequency data created by Daniel Chai, Robert Faff, and Philip Gharghori - Australian journal of management Volume 38, number 2 .

Employing a new proxy for liquidity, this paper examines its impact on stock returns in the context of the Fama-French framework. We augment the Carhart four-factor model with a liquidity factor in our asset pricing tests. Using an extensive dataset drawn from the Australian equities market, we find that liquidity explains a portion of the common variation in stock returns even after controlling for size, book-to-market and momentum. However, our findings suggest that the liquidity factor only adds marginal explanatory power to contemporary asset pricing models.

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Asset pricing--Fama-French model--Australian evidence

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