Liquidity Dynamics of Indian Stock Market in Financial Shocks: Extreme Value Theory

The paper tries to capture the liquidity dynamics in the case of extreme events such a soil price shock and the sub-prime crisis by considering trading probability (TP), market efficiency coefficient (MEC) and total volume (TV) as liquidity measures in the Indian context. Using extreme value theory (EVT), the results provide evidence for the presence of significant liquidity risk in the Indian market. The results reveal a low observed value of TP during the sub-prime financial crisis. Based on the analyses of MEC, it can be concluded that despite the presence of liquidity risk, the Indian market is quite resilient even in extreme conditions. It can also be concluded that Indian market is risky for speculators; however for long-term investment liquidity risk is lower for BSE 500 indexed shares. The study has implications in exploring how market participants rebalance their portfolios in response to liquidity uncertainty.


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liquidity which is the ease with which traders get the funding.
Various study based on the dimension of liquidity shows the benefits of the presence of liquidity in the financial market. Liquidity in stock markets also has a relationship with rates of economic growth [3]. There exists a positive relationship between liquidity and asset returns [4] [5].
Liquidity conditions can differ significantly across the asset classes, even in normal times. A number of asset classes (Stocks, Bonds and Real estate etc.) show time-series and cross-section variation in liquidity. This variation matters to market participants who worry about the cost of trading into or out of the desired position in a short period of time [6]. Understanding the dynamic nature of liquidity is important for multiple reasons. Some of these reasons are: market liquidity risk might be a factor of assets pricing [4], market liquidity can influence trader's behavior [5], and the liquid market may offer efficient trading [7] and the effectiveness of monetary policy also depends on liquidity conditions in financial markets [8].
The sub-prime crisis has shown that liquidity of the global markets can plunge suddenly and the market liquidity worsens when the participants are eager to trade. This illiquidity and consequent risk often flares up volatility, spreads across asset classes through the globe with various assets showing increased correlations between them. This connection between extreme events and illiquidity challenges the financial system with the possibility of increased systematic risk and spreads and tightened risk management practices. It could lead to significant fluctuations in asset prices. In this paper, we investigate the liquidity dynamics during turbulent conditions in Indian stock market using extreme value theory (EVT) which implicitly considers unseen and un-fathomable shocks like adverse movements of oil price and global events like the sub-prime crisis.

Literature Review
Chordia and Subrahmanyam [5] produce empirical evidence for statistically significant and negative effect of liquidity on risk-adjusted returns by employing the turnover rate and the trading volume as a proxy for market liquidity. In the same line, Pastor and Stambaugh [9] document that more volatile liquidity leads to lower expected returns from stocks. Marshall and Young [10] find a similar result for Australian stock market with a turnover rate. However, Martinez, Nieto, Rubio, and Tapia [11] could not find any significant empirical evidence for the link between returns and liquidity when bid-ask spread is used for liquidity proxy in Spanish stock market. Going further, Chordia and Subrahmanyam [8] explain how market efficiency and liquidity are linked. Additionally, in view of institutional features elucidated by Masulis and Shivakumar [12], features such as opening price setting, limit orders or other trading rules play an important role in the relationship of liquidity with market efficiency. Stoll [13] attributes electronic trading for the improvements of the market efficiency by reducing the cost of liquidity. In the case of emerging market, work on liquidity This provides a scope for researchers to study "liquidity dynamics in emerging markets like India" because of following important reasons: poor liquidity prevents FIIs from investing in emerging markets, liquidity effects may be particularly strong, namely in emerging markets as shown by Bekaert, Harvey and Lundblad [17], common determinants in liquidity may not be valid in emerging market economies and it is not fully understood why this phenomenon is observed [18]. Additionally, emerging markets are highly dependent on global liquidity. A liquidity stress event that originates from advanced economies is likely to affect emerging markets [19]. Hence, the following research gap has been identified: the majority of studies have been done only for developed financial markets, contradictory evidence and no major work with attention to an extreme liquidity condition in Indian stock market. Therefore, our study on liquidity dynamics focusing on the extreme case (such as liquidity evaporation), adds to the sparse extant literature.

Data and Methodology
The study focuses on a major stock exchange of India-Bombay stock exchange  Table 1 details descriptive statistics of our data for BSE 500. We observe while on an average return of 0.09% with slightly above normal distribution kurtosis.
We also observe that maximum and minimum values (0.29% to −0.32%) are evenly distributed. This can be further visualized from Figure 1, making a case for EVT analyses. Additionally, trading probability shows a range of 7% to 12% with a high chance of non-normal skewness. As far as MEC is concerned, it has maximum fluctuation and highest skewness and kurtosis. Natural log of total volume seems to be inbound and outside the effect of extreme bound. From Figure 1 we observe the uneven distribution of TP values, especially between 8% -9% and 10% -11%, which is very close to its mean value of 9%. Similarly, MEC histogram shows uneven distribution and presence of a long tail. Since bid-ask spread histogram shows an approximately normal distribution, this work which employs EVT has not considered bid-ask spread. Turnover rate series lacks variability required for EVT treatment. We can further analyse TP, MEC and TV which shows a predilection for EVT and justifies our choice for EVT. Also, choice of EVT presents an extra advantage when considering extreme cases like oil-shock, the sub-prime crisis, Brexit or demonetization as EVT treats these events implicitly.

Unit Root Tests for Stationarity
Stationarity tests for time series data are important as these affect both inference procedure and methodological choice. We employ two different tests for stationarity to all four series of returns and liquidity measures: the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test [20] and the KPSS test [21]. The work of Kwiatkowski, Phillips, Schmidt and Shin [21] allows a broader definition by considering the stationarity as the null hypothesis. Rejection of null hypothesis is regarded as substantial evidence in favour of a unit root. In this study both the KPSS test and the ADF test are employed to get a holistic picture [22].

Extreme Value Theory (EVT)
In this section, we would briefly discuss mathematics behind the EVT.   ( ) where, H(X) represents generalized distribution of X.
According to Three-Types-Theorem (Fisher-Tippett, Gnedenko) if non-degenerate H exists, it must be one of three types: , all x (a Gumbel distribution) In Fr'echet and Weibull, α has to be positive.
The three types may be combined into a single generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution: where n α is a location parameter, n β > 0 is a scale parameter and ξ is a shape parameter. ξ → 0 corresponds to the Gumbel distribution, ξ > 0 to the Fr'echet distribution with α = 1/ξ, ξ < 0 corresponds to the Weibull distribution with α = −1/ξ. ξ > 0: "long-tailed" case,

Stationarity Test
A stationarity process of the return series is tested using ADF and KPSS tests.
The results of these tests are shown in Table 2.   [23]. Figure 1 shows a histogram of log return which shows a normal distribution kind of distribution, justifying our estimates. We find a significant shape parameter for yearly extreme returns for BSE 500 index, hence Weibull distribution which makes a "Short-Tailed" case with finite endpoint approximately at 0.3% ( n n α ξ β − ), which slightly out of the (but very close) to range (−0.32% to 0.29%) for log returns. We conclude that, compared to a short term monthly investment, a long term investment ought to be less risky. EVT model based on quarterly extreme value perform better than that of yearly aggregation but it remains very risky. This may be because, quarterly results play a big role in an investor's sentiments and consequently it is reflected in the prices.   We also found that scale parameter was highest in the case of monthly aggregation, which signifies the presence of extreme cases i.e. minimum trading probability. Extreme values of trading probability on monthly BSE 500 data show a negative shape parameter and hence, a Weibull distribution. This makes a "Short-Tailed" case with finite endpoint approximately at 23.5% ( n n α ξ β − ) which is way out of the observed range (7% to 12%) for trading probability.

EVT Estimates of TP, MEC and TV
Therefore, it can be said that, during an extreme scenario like the financial crisis, observed TP falls below 9% against a theoretical possible value of 23.5% for assets listed on BSE 500, consequently creating a significant liquidity risk in the Indian market. MEC has a positive shape parameter making it an Fr'echet distribution. This distribution makes a "Long-Tailed" case with finite endpoint ap- The endpoint of MEC is well within the range (0.09 to 11.42).We are not making any comments based on EVT estimates of trading volume as this time series has shown the presence of level non-stationarity as shown in Table 2. From Table 5 and Table 6, we observe the returns sensitivity and extreme range of returns for BSE 500. We found that, while 10% of the time, investors' yearly losses won't exceed 4.3%, (12 times 0.3578) however, the probability decreases to 0.10% and 0.01% for a maximum yearly return of 1.24% and 2.3%. Similarly, the minimum yearly return should not be less than 3.79%. However, the maximum yearly return would stay below 3.45%, with a probability 0.9957. Table 5 and Table 6 also summarize the sensitivity and extreme range of liquidity measures for BSE 500. We find that with 10% probability monthly TP won't exceed 9.2%. But, the probabilities decrease to 0.10% and 0.01% for a  However, yearly MEC would stay above 0.085. As stated earlier, we avoid making any conclusion based on TV while analyzing sensitivity and extreme range too.

Conclusion and Implication
Understanding the dynamic nature of liquidity is important. Our work makes an attempt to investigate the presence of liquidity risk in Indian stock market. Our study focuses on liquidity dynamics in case of the extreme events like financial crises. We worked on monthly data of return along with trading probability, market efficiency coefficient, and total volume for a period of July 2002 to Feb 2016 from BSE 500 index. Our data covers pre and post-subprime crisis period, which is crucial for studying the extreme changes in stock market liquidity during that time period. We can conclude the presence of significant liquidity risk in the Indian market. Our EVT estimate justifies the inferences to liquidity risk of Indian stock market. We find that observed TP during crisis time is approximately 1/3 rd of theoretical possible of 23.5%, making Indian stock market quite illiquid during the time of financial crisis. However, estimates of MEC provide evidence for the resilience of Indian stock market. Therefore, we conclude that Indian stock market is quick to recover from financial shocks. We also found that yearly returns have a range of −3.8% to 3.45% approximately with high probability. Based on this range, we also conclude that Indian market is risky for speculators, however for long-term investment liquidity risk is lower for BSE 500. Our work will help in explaining the seeming vulnerability of Indian stock market and at the same times its resilience, as far stock market liquidity is a concern. Our study can be used to test liquidity pull-back hypothesis, which deals with how demand for liquidity by banks affects the financial market. Cassola,