This paper investigates the commonality of liquidity in an open limit order book market. We find that commonality in liquidity becomes stronger the deeper we look into the limit order book. While commonality is only about 2% at the best prices, it increases up to about 20% inside the limit order...

This paper examines the relationship between liquidity and quality of financial information by analyzing long-term trends in Amihud's (2002) illiquidity measure for firms that restate financial statements. I find that for most income decreasing restatements illiquidity increases several months...

We analyze the impact of high frequency (HF) trading in financial markets based on a model with three types of traders: liquidity traders (LTs), professional traders (PTs), and high frequency traders (HFTs). Our four main findings are: i) The price impact of liquidity trades is higher in the...

We analyze the impact of high frequency (HF) trading in financial markets based on a model with three types of traders: liquidity traders (LTs), professional traders (PTs), and high frequency traders (HFTs). Our four main findings are: i) The price impact of liquidity trades is higher in the...

We develop a credit-risk model to study how information acquisition affects the liquidity in a secondary bond market. In our model, the creditors of a firm can acquire costly information about the firm and exploit the information advantage by selling their bonds to uninformed buyers. When a...

Using the staggered entry of Chi-X in 12 European equity markets as a source of exogenous variation in high frequency trading (HFT), we find that HFT causes significant increases in co-movement in returns and in liquidity. About one-third of the increase in return co-movement is due to faster...

We present a dynamic equilibrium model to understand differences and interactions between informational and trading speed advantages. The model is a stochastic asynchronous game, with endogenous trading decisions and non-cooperation among agents, in a limit order market. We show that welfare and...

High-frequency trading (HFT) has been dominating the activity in developed financial markets in the last two decades. Despite its recent formation, the literature on the impacts of HFT on financial markets and participants is broad. However, there are ongoing debates and unanswered questions...

We exploit the staggered removal of a geography-based market friction—the adoption of interstate banking deregulation—to investigate whether banking market development spills over to the functioning of the equity market, measured as stock market liquidity. Interstate banking deregulation...

Using a recent pilot program as an exogenous shock to hidden liquidity, we show that hidden liquidity has significant effects on various measures of market quality and order submission strategies after controlling for market volatility and other stock attributes. Spreads, depths, trading volume,...