We analyze a multi-period model of trading with differentially informed traders, liquidity traders and a market maker. Each informed traders' initial information is a noisy estimate of the long-term value of the asset, and the different signals received by informed traders can have a variety of...

Consistent with recent theoretical models where binding capital constraints lead to sudden liquidity dry-ups, we find that negative market returns decrease stock liquidity, especially for high volatility stocks and during times of tightness in the funding market. The asymmetric effect of changes...