Uniswap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) and was first launched on November 2, 2018 on the Ethereum mainnet [1] and is part of an Ecosystem of products in Decentralized Finance (DeFi). It replaces a traditional order book type of trading common on centralized exchanges (CEX) with a...

This paper tests the impact of the commodity transaction tax (CTT) introduced in Indian commodity market since July 2013, particularly on market liquidity and volatility aspects. We rely on a distinctive design of the tax, which is imposed only on non agri-commodities. Here, we considered Gold...

This paper discusses the velocities of escaped savings and financial liquidity, as well as the minimum mixed savings. This means that examined the behavior of the money cycle under normal conditions, due to the velocity of mixed savings at their lower level and the velocity of financial...

We discuss the notion of liquidity and liquidity risk within the financial system. We distinguish between three different liquidity types, central bank liquidity, funding and market liquidity and their relevant risks. In order to understand the workings of financial system liquidity, as well as...

Der Neue Markt soll wachstumsorientierten Unternehmen den Zugang zur Börse eröffnen. Diefür dieses Marktsegment neu geschaffene Institution des Betreuers soll Vorbildcharakter fürandere Marktsegmente haben. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden Vor- und Nachteile desBetreuer-Konzeptes...

Liquidity problems lie at the heart of crises on financial markets as demonstrated in this paper by detailed descriptions of the stock market crash in 1987, the LTCM-crisis in 1998 and the financial market consequences of 11 September 2001. The events also demonstrate that modern central banks,...

This paper looks at the interplay of volatility and liquidity on the Euronext trading platform during the December 2, 2002 to April 30, 2003 time period. Using transaction and order book data for some large- and mid-cap Brussels-traded stocks on Euronext, we study the ex-ante liquidity vs...

I explain the key failure mechanics of large dealer banks, and some policy implications. This is not a review of the financial crisis of 2007–2009. Systemic risk is considered only in passing. Both the financial crisis and the systemic...

What are liquidity crises? And what can be done to address them? This short paper brings together some personal reflections on this issue, largely based on previous work. In the process, it questions a number of commonly held beliefs that have become part of the conventional wisdom. The paper is...

The trading of securities on multiple markets raises the question of each market’s sharein the discovery of the informationally efficient price. We exploit salient distributionalfeatures of multivariate financial price processes to uniquely determine these contributions.Thereby we resolve the...