This paper presents the most extensive analysis of liquidity in the German equity market so far. We examine the … evolution of liquidity over time, the determinants of liquidity, and commonality across liquidity measures and countries. We … make use of a new publicly available dataset, the Market Microstructure Database Xetra (MMDB-Xetra). We find that liquidity …

changes in financial intermediaries' balance sheets for the supply of credit, liquidity and asset prices, and, consequently …

. We exploit this quasi{ natural experiment to investigate the impact this change had on liquidity and trading behavior …

We examine the impact of increasing competition among the fastest traders by analyzing a new low-latency microwave … increased contribution to price discovery by the smaller exchange. Liquidity worsens for large caps due to increased sniping but … improves for mid caps due to fast liquidity provision. Trading volume on the smaller exchange declines across all stocks. We …

differences in market design and liquidity, can be exploited to estimate unique information shares. The empirical application of …

We propose a theory that jointly accounts for an asset illiquidity and for the asset price potential over-reliance on … Order Expectations (HOEs) about the two factors that influence the aggregate demand: fundamentals information and liquidity … HOEs about fundamentals are subdued, prices under-rely on public information, the market hovers in a high liquidity state …

and posted liquidity. Our findings moreover suggest that large hidden orders are associated with larger transaction costs …, higher price impact and increased volatility. In particular, as large hidden orders fail to attract (latent) liquidity to the … market, hidden liquidity provision gives rise to negative liquidity externalities. …