Lifting the Veil: An Analysis of Pre-Trade Transparency at the NYSE
This paper investigates an important feature of market design: pre-trade transparency, defined as the availability of information about pending trading interest in the market. We look at how the NYSE´s introduction of OpenBook, which enables traders off the exchange floor to observe depth in the limit order book in real time, affects the trading strategies of investors and specialists, informational efficiency, liquidity, and returns.(...)