“…My paper builds on literature linking stock liquidity and external financing (Lipson & Mortal, 2009;Butler, Grullon & Weston., 2005), stock liquidity and investment (Becker-Blease & Paul, 2006;Vo, 2013), stock liquidity and price efficiency (Chordia, Roll & Subrahmanyam, 2005;Chordia, Roll & Subrahmanyam, 2008), and stock liquidity and firm risk (Pastor & Stambaugh, 2003;Acharya & Pedersen, 2005;Chan, Hameed & Kang, 2013) by showing that these benefits are especially valuable to financially constrained firms.…”