This book examines the complexity of trading and the creation of liquidity. Titled after the Baruch College Financial Markets Conference, Equity Market Round-Up: Proposals for Strengthening the Markets, this book explores how regulation has a clear impact on market structure and, therefore, how...

Preface -- List of Participants -- Conference Sponsors -- Chapter 1: Trading, Clearing, Custody and the Worldwide Evolution of Exchanges as Unique Organizations -- Chapter 2: Coping with Liquidity Provision -- Chapter 3: The View from Here -- Chapter 4: Coping with the Dynamics of a Continuous...

Chapter 1: Economics and the Equity Market: A Microeconomics Course Application -- Chapter 2: Liquidity, Trading, and Price Determination in Equity Markets: A Finance Course Application -- Chapter 3: Liquidity and the Impact of Information Shocks: A Macroeconomics Course Application -- Chapter...

A taxonomy of existing and planned automated trade execution systems in financial markets is provided. Over 50 automated market structures in 16 countries are analyzed. The classification scheme is organized around the principle that such markets consist of an algorithm that performs a trade...