In this paper, we investigate the role of proprietary algorithmic traders in facilitating liquidity in a limit order market. We find that they rarely use liquidity removing market orders. Their ability to affect the bid-ask spread with order cancellation rates is maximum among three mutually...

From 1992 to 2011, average R2 increased from 0.17 to 0.47. During this period, passive financial institutions also grew their ownership from 30 to 50% of the market. Passive investors do not perform fundamental research nor trade around firm-specific news, thus reducing the firm-specific...

We investigate the role of proprietary algorithmic traders (PAT) in facilitating liquidity in a limit order market. Using the order level data from NSE of India, we find that they increase limit order supply following periods of high short-term stock-specific volatility, periods of high...

In this paper, we investigate the role of proprietary algorithmic traders in facilitating liquidity in a limit order market. Using the order level data from National Stock Exchange of India, we find that they increase limit order supply following periods of high short-term volatility or periods...

Short sellers are routinely blamed for destabilizing stock markets by exacerbating deviations from fundamental values. In response, regulators periodically impose short sale constraints aimed at preventing excessive stock market declines. One explanation is that policy makers regard short...

Central bank informal communications became more frequent and acquired more mass media attention after the global financial crisis. Do investors react to the content (e.g., future expansionary or restrictive policy) of informal central bank communications? And especially, do investors have a...

The 2007-2008 financial crises has made it painfully obvious that markets may quickly turn illiquid.Moreover, recent experience has shown that distress and lack of active trading can jump “around”between seemingly unconnected parts of the financial system contributing to transforming...

This study compares the limit order behaviour and execution costs of retail and non-retail investors to examine the effectiveness with which these two groups of investors manage the trading process. Fundamental differences are found in the trading behaviours of the two groups, consistent with...

We analyze early-venture fundraising from dispersed, endogenously informed investors. An entrepreneur chooses a payoff-maximizing offering, and investors communicate their information by either contributing capital or by abstaining. The entrepreneur uses the information conveyed by fundraising...

Crypto tokens are mostly issued and traded outside traditional regulated financial markets due to their ambiguous nature. However, it is unclear whether investors in these assets view regulation to be necessary. We empirically examine crypto token price responses to regulatory news and whether...