This paper compares the true, ex-ante forecasting performance of a micro-based model against both a standard macro model and a random walk. In contrast to existing literature, which is focused on longer horizon forecasting, we examine forecasting over horizons from one day to one month (the...

This paper examines execution costs and the impact of trade size for stock index futures using price-volume transaction data from the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange. Consistent with Subrahmanyam [Rev. Financ. Stud. 4 (1991) 11] we find that effective half spreads in...

Electronic version of an article published as Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, Volume 10, Issue 4, 2007, pp. 519-540, Article DOI: 10.1142/S0219091507001185 Copyright World Scientific Publishing Company www.worldscinet.com/rpbfmp