We identify fast trading by directly measuring message traffic and the lifetime of orders for all market members on Euronext using their identification codes. We show that the fast-traded stocks exhibit the weakest decrease in both the relative spread and the cost of round trip trade. These...

The paper studies relevance of the cross-sided externality between liquidity makers and takers from the two-sided market perspective. We use exogenous changes in the make/take fee structure, minimum tick-size and technology for liquidity suppliers and demanders, as experiments to identify...

Recent regulatory reforms like the mandatory clearing of standardized swap contracts and mandatory trading on centralized execution platforms have significantly changed the derivatives landscape. These reforms have, in certain cases, led the market to increasingly trade on multilateral...

I investigate whether hedge funds that supply liquidity earn superior returns. Using transaction data, I find that hedge funds following short-term contrarian strategies (i.e., liquidity-suppliers) earn significantly higher returns on their equity trades and holdings. Similarly, using commercial...

We document new intraday trading patterns indicative of the key roles of endogenous trading responses of investors to variations in imperfectly-competitive liquidity provision. When measured in trade times of fixed dollar values, price impacts and volatility fall sharply from open to close, and...

This paper describes price discovery and liquidity provision in a dynamic limit order market with asymmetric information and non-Markovian learning. Investors condition on information in both the current limit order book and also, unlike in previous re-search, on the prior order history when...

This paper introduces a coincident indicator of systemic liquidity risk in the Italian financial markets. In order to take account of the systemic dimension of liquidity stress, standard portfolio theory is used. Three sub-indices, that reflect liquidity stress in specific market segments, are...

Liquidity backstops have important implications for financial stability. In this paper we provide a microfoundation for the important role of liquidity backstops in mitigating runs (or, conversely, the role of the lack of liquidity backstops in exacerbating runs) based on a dynamic model of debt...

I show that if dealers are averse to holding inventory, then prices, liquidity, and dealers' inventory positions depend on inventory costs in negotiated over-the-counter markets. The solution to my dynamic equilibrium model rationalizes the following stylized facts in the US corporate bond...