This paper investigates an important feature of market design: pre-trade transparency, defined as the availability of information about pending trading interest in the market. We look at how the NYSE´s introduction of OpenBook, which enables traders off the exchange floor to observe depth in...

This paper investigates an important feature of market design: pre-trade transparency, defined as the availability of information about pending trading interest in the market. We look at how the NYSE s introduction of OpenBook, which enables traders off the exchange floor to observe depth in the...

We study pre-trade transparency by looking at the introduction of NYSE's OpenBook service that provides limit order book information to traders off the exchange floor. We find that traders attempt to manage limit order exposure: They submit smaller orders and cancel orders faster. Specialists'...

We study pre-trade transparency by looking at the introduction of NYSE's OpenBook service that provides limit order book information to traders off the exchange floor. We find that traders attempt to manage limit order exposure: they submit smaller orders and cancel orders faster. Specialists'...