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arbitrage." The key difference between message data and widely-familiar limit order book data is that message data contain … limit order book data you cannot see the losers, so you cannot directly see the races. We find that latency-arbitrage races …), that latency arbitrage imposes a roughly 0.5 basis point tax on trading, that market designs that eliminate latency …
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Using over eight trillion observations of market data, we use a regression discontinuity design to analyze the effect of increasing the minimum price variation (MPV) for quoting equity securities in light of recent proposals to increase the MPV from $0.01 to $0.05. We show that a larger MPV...
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We propose a model of dynamic trading where a strategic high frequency trader receives an imperfect signal about future order flows, and exploits his speed advantage to optimize his quoting policy. We determine the provision of liquidity, order cancellations, and impact on low frequency traders...
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With the high-frequency data of firm quotes in the transaction platform of foreign exchanges, arbitrage profit … pairs--can be detected to emerge and disappear in the matter of seconds. The frequency and duration of such arbitrage … arbitrage opportunity and places orders for multiple transactions--two in negative spreads and three in triangular arbitrage …
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for foreign exchanges) data, it is found that risk-free arbitrage opportunities--free lunch--do occur in the foreign … pair and (b) triangular arbitrage relationship involving three currency pairs. The latter occur much more often than the … former. Such arbitrage opportunities tend to occur when the markets are active and volatile. Over the 12-year, tick …
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-the-counter (OTC) markets during crises. Our theory emphasizes two key frictions in OTC markets: finding counterparties takes time, and …
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Many observers have argued that credit default swaps contributed significantly to the credit crisis. Of particular concern to these observers are that credit default swaps trade in the largely unregulated over-the-counter market as bilateral contracts involving counterparty risk and that they...
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We provide the impact on asset prices of search-and-bargaining frictions in over-the-counter markets. Under certain conditions, illiquidity discounts are higher when counterparties are harder to find, when sellers have less bargaining power, when the fraction of qualified owners is smaller, or...
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. The theory predicts that asset prices carry a speculative premium that reflects the asset's marketability and depends on … anomalous. The theory also exhibits rational expectations equilibria with recurring belief driven events that resemble liquidity …
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We develop a model of a two-sided asset market in which trades are intermediated by dealers and are bilateral. Dealers compete to attract order flow by posting the terms at which they execute trades-- which can include prices, quantities, and execution speed--and investors direct their orders...
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