We show that stock market liquidity affects subsequent corporate investment and production. Stock illiquidity, which raises the firm's cost of capital, lowers investment in capital assets, R&D, and inventory. This effect holds regardless of the firms' financially constraints. Consequently,...

How does an idiosyncratic shock to the liquidity of a stock affect the liquidity and prices of related stocks? Utilizing the feature that the second stage of a two-step spinoff increases the float of an already-public firm, we document strong evidence that the enhanced liquidity of spun-off...

This book is about the pricing of liquidity. We present theory and evidence on how liquidity affects securities prices, why liquidity varies over time, how a drop in liquidity leads to a drop in prices, and why liquidity crises create liquidity spirals. The analysis has implications for traders,...