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Transparency, Liquidity Uncertainty and Crises Mark Lang Mark Maffett

Why liquidity uncertainty? Current crisis Liquidity dried up Especially for opaque assets Investors worry about liquidity uncertainty the principal challenge is not the average level of financial liquidity, but its variability and uncertainty (Persaud, 2003) As important as the level of liquidity is its uncertainty. Investors may avoid markets altogether where liquidity is uncertain (McCoy, 2003)

Why might transparency matter to liquidity uncertainty? Grossman and Miller (1988) Investors value immediacy Liquidity providers facilitate immediacy Charge a price for immediacy through discounts Lessons: Illiquidity as price pressure Possibility of illiquidity with volume (e.g., crises) Speculators are our friends

Brunnermeier and Pedersen (2009) Liquidity providers rely on borrowed money Subject to margin requirements Liquidity will be affect by: Anything that affects funders willingness to lend or margin requiremens Anything that affects liquidity providers level of capital or risk tolerances

Predictions Economic shocks affect availability of liquidity capital Effects will be greater for stocks with greater uncertainty about intrinsic value (opaque stocks) H1: Liquidity variability is greater for opaque stocks Illiquidity effects can spiral into black holes Especially for opaque stocks H2: Extreme illiquidity events are more common for opaque stocks

When market-wide liquidity gets tight, opaque stocks suffer more H3: The covariance between firm liquidity and market liquidity is higher for opaque stocks When the market drops, liquidity dries up more for opaque stocks H4: The covariance between firm liquidity and market return is higher for opaque stocks

All of the previous effects are more pronounced during crisis periods Market downturns reduce speculator capital and funders willingness to lend, reducing liquidity H5: Crises strengthen the relation between transparency and: liquidity volatility, extreme illiquidity events, covariance of liquidity with market liquidity and covariance of liquidity with market returns. Even more so for greater crises. Transparency mitigates the increase in beta during crises.

Investors will prefer stocks with lower liquidity variability H6: Tobin s Q is higher for firms with: lower liquidity variability, fewer extreme illiquidity events, less skewed liquidity, lower correlation with market liquidity, and lower correlation with market returns.

Research Design 37 countries in all, including the U.S. Results are robust across countries Liquidity measure: Amihud price impact Price movement for one million dollar trade Unit of observation: firm/month Transparency: Discretionary earnings smoothing Big-5 auditor Non-local accounting standards Analyst following Analyst forecast accuracy 9

Control Variables Level of liquidity Firm size Book-to-Market Standard Deviation of Returns Firm Returns Cross-Listing Ownership Structure Profitability Business Risk Country, Year and Firm Fixed Effects 10

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H1: Transparency and Liquidity Volatility 12

H2: Transparency and Extreme Illiquidity Events 13

H3&4: Transparency and Liquidity Covariability 14

H5: Transparency, Liquidity Uncertainty and Crises 15

H6: Liquidity Uncertainty and Valuation 16

Conclusions Liquidity variability, extreme illiquidity events and liquidity covariability with market liquidity and market returns are correlated with transparency Very robust Importance of transparency varies predictably across institutional environments Effects are particularly strongest during crises Each dependent variable is correlated with Tobin s Q 17