LIQUIDITY RISK IMPACT ON STOCK RETURNS

Rapheedah  Musneh; Mohd. Rahimie  Abd. Karim; Caroline Geetha A/P B. Arokiadasan

doi:10.51200/mjbe.vi.2837

LIQUIDITY RISK IMPACT ON STOCK RETURNS

Authors

Rapheedah Musneh Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA Sabah Branch, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Mohd. Rahimie Abd. Karim Faculty of Business, Economics and Accounting, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Caroline Geetha A/P B. Arokiadasan Faculty of Business, Economics and Accounting, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51200/mjbe.vi.2837

Keywords:

liquidity, liquidity risks, LCAPM, emerging markets, Malaysia

Abstract

This study investigates the impact of liquidity risk on stock returns in the Malaysian stock exchange using the LCAPM model of Acharya and Pedersen. This research employed firm-level equity data involving 419 continuously listed firms in Bursa Malaysia from January 2000 to December 2018. The study employed LCAPM asset pricing model tested using Fama-Macbeth two-stage cross-sectional regression. The findings suggest that the covariance between stock illiquidity and the market return is not priced in the Malaysian stock market. While, the other explanatory variables are significant in explaining the cross-sectional variations of stock returns, but only two variables; the commonality in liquidity and net liquidity risks are correctly signed. The evidence is limited to Malaysian corporations listed in the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia. These findings show some new evidence on the application of the LCAPM model in the emerging markets by using the closing per cent quoted spread impact (CPQS Impact) of Chung and Zhang (2014) as a measure of illiquidity. This research provides new insights on LCAPM application in the Malaysian stock market.

Author Biography

Caroline Geetha A/P B. Arokiadasan, Faculty of Business, Economics and Accounting, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

References

Acharya, V. V., & Pedersen, L. H. (2005). Asset pricing with liquidity risk. Journal of Financial Economics, 77 (2), 375 – 410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2004.06.007

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31-12-2020

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Musneh, R. ., Abd. Karim, . M. R. ., & B. Arokiadasan, C. G. A. (2020). LIQUIDITY RISK IMPACT ON STOCK RETURNS. Malaysian Journal of Business and Economics (MJBE), 7(1), 113. https://doi.org/10.51200/mjbe.vi.2837

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020): MJBE Vol. 7 (October, No. 1), 2020

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