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Liquidity Shocks and Order Book Dynamics
Biais, Bruno - 2009
We propose a dynamic competitive equilibrium model of limit order trading, based on the premise that investors cannot monitor markets continuously. We study how limit order markets absorb transient liquidity shocks, which occur when a significant fraction of investors lose their willingness and...
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Stock Price Manipulation, Market Microstructure and Asymmetric Information
Allen, Franklin - 1991
In recent years, there has been a large literature on how stock exchange specialists set prices when there are investors who know more about the stock than they do. An important assumption in this literature is that there are *liquidity traders* who are equally likely to buy or sell for...
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Econometric Models of Limit-Order Executions
Lo, Andrew W. - 1997
This paper attempts to assess whether money can generate persistent economic" fluctuations in dynamic general equilibrium models of the business cycle. We show that a small" nominal friction in the goods market can make the response of output to monetary shocks large" and persistent if it is...
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Dark Trading at the Midpoint : Pricing Rules, Order Flow, and High Frequency Liquidity Provision
Bartlett, Robert P, III. - 2015
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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Predatory Trading
Brunnermeier, Markus K. - 2004
This paper studies predatory trading: trading that induces and/or exploits other investors' need to reduce their positions. We show that if one trader needs to sell, others also sell and subsequently buy back the asset. This leads to price overshooting and a reduced liquidation value for the...
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Modeling the Impacts of Market Activity on Bid-Ask Spreads in the Option Market
Cho, Young-Hye - 1999
using transactions data. We propose a new market microstructure theory which we call derivative hedge theory, in which … volume as a measure of liquidity and supports the derivative hedge theory. Option market spreads are positively related to … spreads in the underlying market, again supporting our theory. However, option market duration does affect option market …
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Transaction Costs in Dealer Markets : Evidence From The London Stock Exchange
Reiss, Peter C. - 1994
This paper describes regularities in the intraday spreads and prices quoted by dealers on the London Stock Exchange. It develops a measure of spread-related transaction costs, one that recognizes dealers' willingness to price trades within their quoted spreads. This measure of transaction costs...
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Day Traders, Noise, and Cost of Immediacy
Dalvi, Manoj; Deuskar, Prachi; Glosten, Lawrence R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We identify different roles traders play using data with trader identities for all transactions in SENSEX-index stocks on the Bombay Stock Exchange from January 2005 to December 2011. Individual day traders (IDT) are identified as "noise traders", who play an important role in the market...
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A Model of Momentum
Liu, Laura Xiaolei - 2011
Optimal investment of firms implies that expected stock returns are tied with the expected marginal benefit of investment divided by the marginal cost of investment. Winners have higher expected growth and expected marginal productivity (two major components of the marginal benefit of...
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Equity market liberalizations as country IPOs
Martell, Rodolfo - 2003
Equity market liberalizations are like IPOs, but they are IPOs of a country's stock market rather than of individual firms. Both are endogenous events whose benefits are limited by poor investor protection, agency costs, and information asymmetries. As for stock prices following an IPO, there...
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