This study tests whether disclosing a trader's identity dampens or stimulates subsequent trading volume based on the trader's reputation for being informed. While a reputation for being informed makes markets less liquid, thus inhibiting subsequent trade ("illiquidity effect"), the information...

Prior research predicts a positive relation between expected rates of return and investor-level tax rates. We provide new theory that predicts that lower liquidity amplifies and higher liquidity attenuates this positive relation. We empirically test our prediction using the cuts to individual...