This paper focuses on an analytic approach that has received relatively sparse application in the economics/finance literature: simulation. Providing a laboratory-type environment, simulation can generate data that enable a com- plex environment to be assessed in a tractable manner that might...

Strengthening competition in the equity markets has long been a major public policy objective. This paper turns to another important determinant of market quality, one that has received relatively little attention in the public policy debates: order integration — the way in which orders are...