Dealers trading in a limit order market must choose both the order aggressiveness and the quantity for their orders. We empirically investigate how dealers jointly make these decisions in the foreign exchange market using a unique simultaneous equations model. The model uses an ordered probit...

Most financial markets allow investors to submit both limit and market orders but it is not always clear why agents choose one over the other. In this study we empirically investigate how several microstructure factors influence the choice and timing of submitting either limit or market orders...

Recent work in the market microstructure literature suggests that the speed with which orders arrive in the market impacts traders' order submission decisions. In this study we use an asymmetric autoregressive conditional duration (ACD) model to empirically investigate the influence on the...