Is Sound Just Noise?
We analyze the information content of the ambient noise level in the Chicago Board of Trade's 30-year Treasury Bond futures trading pit. Controlling for a variety of other variables, including lagged price changes, trading volumes, and news announcements, we find that the sound level conveys information which is highly economically and statistically significant. Specifically, changes in the sound level forecast changes in the cost of transacting. Following a rise in the sound level, prices become more volatile, depth declines, and information asymmetry increases. Our results offer important implications for the future of open outcry and floor-based trading mechanisms. Copyright The American Finance Association 2001.
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2001
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Authors: | Coval, Joshua D. |
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Journal of Finance. - American Finance Association - AFA, ISSN 1540-6261. - Vol. 56.2001, 5, p. 1887-1910
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American Finance Association - AFA |
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