Illiquidity events become more common when equity prices are falling, and credit spreads rising.
The first round of «quantitative easing», or QE, ended in April 2010 and was quickly followed by
the illiquidity event in May 2010 that came to be known as the Flash Crash.
There may be more, but I will point at James Cramer's assertions that this is
an illiquidity event, and not a credit event, and the assertions of Bill Gross that this event heralds a wider credit event, and soon.
Not exact matches
If a liquidity
event were to come along we might see the
illiquidity discount shrink or disappear.
But
illiquidity can work in your favour — if your thesis is correct,
events / results line up, etc. the price can jump v sharply & overshoot.