The Daimler foray into the international equity market, beginning with its 1993 cross-listing in the U.S. and peaking with its 1998 merger with Chrysler, provides an uncommon opportunity to explore the interplay between competing approaches countries may take in their treatment of minority...

We analyse the price discovery process in DJIA stocks before and after the full implementation of Reg NMS in October 2007. The execution channels analysed are NYSE-ARCA, the traditional NYSE system, and NASDAQ. By comparing the changes in Hasbrouck's information share to changes in the...

We test whether an increase either in informed (hypothesis 1) or in large liquidity trades (hypothesis 2) leads to greater correlation of trading volume across markets. We confirm that both trading volume and positive returns of target companies are abnormally high prior to merger announcements....

Using synchronous transactions data for IBM from the New York, Pacific and Midwest Stock Exchanges, we estimate an error correction model to investigate whether each of the exchanges is contributing to price discovery. Johansen's multi-variate cointegration test yields two cointegrating vectors...

We study NYSE, NASDAQ, and ARCA prices for DJIA stocks and LSE, Xetra, and Chi-X prices for five leading British equities. MiFID1 hastened fragmentation but accomplished the intended cointegration of European equity markets that had previously been segmented. Initially, price discovery in London...

During the Flash Crash on May 6, 2010, a short period of high stock market volatility, some stock prices declined to $0.01, while others increased to $100,000. Examining Intermarket Sweep Orders (ISO) before, on, and after May 6, we find that ISO use is substantially higher on May 6. For those...

In this paper we suggest that market makers deduce the extent of the adverse selection problem associated with a stock (and set up the bid-ask spread accordingly) by observing how many financial analysts are following that stock. Market makers do this based on the belief that more financial...