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Firm level governance and institutional determinants of liquidity: evidence from Sub Saharan Africa

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posted on 2023-06-08, 14:30 authored by Bruce Hearn, Jenifer Piesse
This study contrasts well established liquidity measures, namely volume-based turnover ratio, related price-impact Amihud (2002) construct and the multidimensional Liu (2006) indicator alongside the Lesmond, Ogden and Trzcinka (1999) proportion of zero daily returns metric in explaining bid-ask spread plus commissions costs. We control for six critical firm governance characteristics that impact liquidity alongside the market-based controls that are conventionally solely included in the literature. Using a unique sample of 12 Sub Saharan African (SSA) equity markets, namely Kenya, Mauritius, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Ghana, BRVM (Cote d’Ivoire), and then South Africa’s ALT-x and Main boards we find evidence that state and foreign venture capitalist involvement in firms enhances liquidity while involvement of foreign partners, entrepreneurial founders, domestic venture capital and inclusion within an extended business or family network has opposite effect. The evidence supports the use of the proportion of daily zero returns measure in preference to other measures in capturing illiquidity. Furthermore we find that liquidity is closely associated with three of six World Bank Governance measures of institutional quality with these being government effectiveness, regulatory quality and rule of law

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  • Published

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Journal

International Review of Financial Analysis

ISSN

1057-5219

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

28

Page range

93-111

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  • Business and Management Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2013-03-18

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2013-03-18

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2013-02-21

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