We use data on actual holding periods for all investors in a stock market over a10-year period to investigate the links between holding periods, liquidity, and assetreturns. Microstructure measures of liquidity are shown to be important determinantsof the holding period decision of individual...

We investigate the relationship between bankruptcy risk and expected future sales growthfor Norwegian non-listed rms for the period 1988-2007. We nd that rms with highbankruptcy risk also have high expected future growth. Financial ratios characterizingrms with high bankruptcy risk also...

We document a strong relation between stock market liquidity and the businesscycle. Stock market liquidity worsens when the economy is slowing down, and thiseffect is most pronounced for small firms. Using data for both the US and Norway,we show that stock market liquidity predicts the current...

This paper analyzes return patterns and determinants at the Oslo Stock Ex-change (OSE) in the period 1980{2006. We nd that a three-factor model con-taining the market, a size factor and a liquidity factor provides a reasonable t forthe cross-section of Norwegian stock returns. As expected, oil...