This study exploits a unique dataset to determine the relative contribution to price discovery of order flow originating from geographically dispersed ASX servers. It is found that transactions of traders on the Sydney, Chicago and London servers have a significant impact on price volatility....

Classical economic theory suggests that excess returns should be competed away as new participants enter the market. This is especially true for the profits from riskless arbitrage. Yet, there is conflicting evidence in the financial economic literature over whether high frequency trading (HFT)...

This study exploits a unique dataset to determine the relative contribution to price discovery of order flow originating from geographically dispersed ASX servers. It is found that the transactions of traders on the Sydney, Chicago and London servers have a significant impact on price...

This study examines the impact of changes in data feed pricing schedules on the price discovery between competing venues, as espoused by Cespa & Foucault (2014). We utilize three exogenous events stemming from a staggered increase in the data feed price that transpired on the Chicago Mercantile...

This paper investigates daily and intraday properties of the VIX and its predecessor the VXO. Sampling data at a one-minute frequency, we document that both the VIX and VXO display a negative drift intraday. While this finding is expected in the VXO, given its constant 30-day maturity at a daily...

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) introduced the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) in 1993. The index has come to act as the benchmark for stock market volatility and, more generally, investor sentiment. The VIX has proven to be very useful in forecasting the future market direction especially...

We apply nonparametric statistical procedures to extract jumps around scheduled macroeconomic news in U.S. Treasury bond, U.S. Treasury note and Eurodollar futures prices from 2001 to 2004. Volatility and trading activity during announcement days with jumps versus no jumps are also analyzed with...

By analyzing a novel transaction-level dataset, this study reveals the microstructural liquidity dynamics around scheduled macroeconomic announcements. Specifically, we examine whether investor composition contributes to liquidity fluctuations in a highly liquid and purely order-driven index...