Hendershott, Terrence; Menkveld, Albert J. - Center for Financial Studies - 2010
We study price pressures in stock prices-price deviations from fundamental value due to a risk-averse intermediary ….28% with a half-life of 0.92 days. Price pressure causes average transitory volatility in daily stock returns of 0.49%. Price … model the 'representative' intermediary uses price pressure to control risk through inventory mean reversion. She trades off …