Do competition and incentives offered to designated market makers (DMMs) improve market liquidity? Using data from NYSE … changes in rebates and requirements for DMMs, do not have any tangible effect on market liquidity. Our results are of …

of global equity limit order markets. Taking market resiliency as an indicator of market quality, we investigate how … that when liquidity becomes scarce Chi-X is a less resilient venue than LSE with variations existing across stocks and time …. In comparison with LSE, Chi-X has more, longer, and severer liquidity shocks. Whereas the vast majority of liquidity …

consume liquidity when it is most needed, even when they are rewarded by the exchange to provide immediacy. The behavior of … traders provide liquidity instead of HFTs, taking advantage of the discounted price. We thus uncover a trade-o. between the … greater liquidity and efficiency provided by HFTs in normal times, and the disruptive consequences of their trading activity …

others, suggesting that there is no speed advantage. HFTs lead price discovery, and neither harm nor improve liquidity. They …

crashes. They actually consume liquidity when it is most needed, even if they are rewarded by the exchange to provide … crash. In their place, slow traders provide liquidity, taking advantage of the discounted price. We thus uncover a trade …-off between the greater liquidity and efficiency provided by designated market makers in normal times, and the disruptive …

-opening period contributes to market quality, defined by price discovery and liquidity provision, in the opening auction. We use a …

This work uses financial markets connected by arbitrage relations to investigate the dynamics of price and liquidity … discovery, which refer to the cross-instrument forecasting power for prices and liquidity, respectively. Specifically, we seek … the liquidity discovery induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Within a cointegration model, we find that price discovery …

, concerns about the market liquidity of the Eurozone sovereign debt markets have been raised. We aim to quantify illiquidity … risks, especially such related to liquidity dry-ups, and illiquidity spillover across maturities by examining the reaction … processes. We find that: a) market liquidity is more fragile and less predictable when an asset is very illiquid and, b) the …