This paper studies price discovery and price convergence in securities trading within a fragmented market environment where stocks are traded on multiple venues. Although alternative venues currently increase their market share, trading on these venues instantly dries out in case the dominant...

We find that small buy trades of U.S. agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are priced 3%-8% lower than large sell trades. No such “crossing” exists in corporate bonds and agency debentures. We attribute the MBS price patterns to impediments to position aggregation in combination with...

This paper studies the impact of public information on trading and market fragmentation in FTSE 100 stocks on the LSE and on Chi-X, the largest multilateral trading facility in Europe. We proxy daily public information through newswire messages which we di erentiate by their ex-ante sentiment....

This paper proposes a structural time-series model for the intraday price dynamics on fragmented financial markets. We generalize the structural model of Hasbrouck () to a multivariate setting. We discuss identification issues and propose a new measure for the contribution of each market to...

This paper investigates the relationship between cross-listing on the US and UK regulated and unregulated exchanges and trading volume, for a sample of 500 foreign firms from 34 countries. Evidence shows that trading volume increase is a function of both reducing segmentation and signaling...