We examine daily short-selling activity and prices around reverse stock splits. Using a difference-in-difference approach with a matched sample of reverse splitting and non-reverse splitting stocks, we show that short selling increases in stocks that reverse split, relative to those that do not....

In a single market, liquidity supply has two dimensions--price measured by the quoted spread, and quantity measured by the quoted depth. A third liquidity dimension, market breath, should be added when multiple markets quote the same security and there are enforceable regulatory penalties for a...