This dissertation consists in three essays that investigate liquidity provision dynamics up to high frequency sampling scheme. The latest evolution of financial markets towards both more trading fragmentation and the emergence of high frequency traders make liquidity provision a topical issue. The first essay provides a novel methodology to forecast liquidity as a trade size specific concept using time series modeling. The second essay focuses on the prominence of market disruptions in the stock market. It investigates what are the most informative microstructure variables with respect to market disruptions’ occurrence. Finally, the third essay documents the trading behavior of high frequency traders (HFT) around market disruptions. Indeed,...