We study the market quality of the Xetra BEST system operated by Deutsche Börse AG, an internalization system designed as part of an open limit order book, which guarantees a price improvement over the inside spread in the Xetra order book. We develop a structural model of this dual market...

An electronic stock exchange is a market place where buyers and sellers of financial instruments conclude trades without physical contact. In India, we have electronic exchanges for currencies, commodities, equity, debt, etc. This article looks at the need for and importance of an electronic...

Under the background of the electronic security trading platform Xetra operated by Frankfurt Stock Exchange, we consider the Xetra auction market system (XAMS) from 'bottom-up', which the interaction among heterogeneous traders and Xetra auction market mechanism generates non-equilibrium price...

In this work, I study the impact of high-frequency trading (HFT) on price discovery and volatility in the Bund futures market. Using a new dataset based on microseconds, the focus of the study is on the reaction of high-frequency traders (HFTs) to major macroeconomic news events. I show that...

With the introduction of the High Frequency Trading (HFT) Act in May 2013, Germany has become the first country that regulates securities trading firms based on their infrastructure and order book activity characteristics. In order to increase the transparency of HFT firms and to facilitate...