Have Liquidity and Trading Activity in the Canadian Provincial Bond Market Deteriorated?

Chen Fan, Sermin Gungor, Guillaume Nolin & Jun Yang
In recent years, the liquidity in the secondary market for Canadian provincial bonds was a concern for many market participants. We find that a proxy for the bid-ask spread has deteriorated modestly since 2010. However, a proxy for price impact as well as measures of trade size, the number of trades and turnover have been stable or improved since 2010. This holds for bonds issued by different provinces and for bonds of different ages and...
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