Do competition and incentives offered to designated market makers (DMMs) improve market liquidity? Using data from NYSE … changes in rebates and requirements for DMMs, do not have any tangible effect on market liquidity. Our results are of …

on liquidity in an attempt to explain the coexistence of evidence regarding both the positive and the negative impacts of … shocks, through which HFT trading patterns may sharply change. Latter regards the certain characteristics of HFT liquidity …

In this paper, we investigate the role of proprietary algorithmic traders in facilitating liquidity in a limit order … algorithmic traders who uses very low latency. The behaviour of HFT mimics the behaviour of its parent class. This is inconsistent … with the theory that fast traders leave the market when stress situations arise, although their limit order supplying …

In this paper, we investigate the role of proprietary algorithmic traders in facilitating liquidity in a limit order … market. We find that they rarely use liquidity removing market orders. Their ability to affect the bid-ask spread with order … following a period of high short-term volatility. This is inconsistent with the theory that fast traders leave the market when …

between traders, when suppliers of liquidity do not sufficiently disclose their trade intentions. As a result, hidden … liquidity can increase trading costs and induce excess price fluctuations unrelated to information. Using NASDAQ order book data …, we find strong empirical support and illustrate that hidden liquidity is higher if bid-ask spreads are smaller and …

of algorithmic trading on stock market liquidity and commonality in liquidity under different market conditions on the … Tokyo Stock Exchange. After controlling for endogeneity, we find algorithmic trading increases stock liquidity by narrowing … spreads and increasing market depth. Furthermore, algorithmic trading increases commonality in liquidity at both high and low …

of algorithmic trading on stock market liquidity and commonality in liquidity under different market conditions on the … Tokyo Stock Exchange. After controlling for endogeneity, we find algorithmic trading increases stock liquidity by narrowing … spreads and increasing market depth. Furthermore, algorithmic trading increases commonality in liquidity at both high and low …

: 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 presence of the HFTs and is increasing with the size of the trade. In particular … PTs lose revenue in every trade intermediated by HFTs, they are compensated with a higher liquidity discount in the market …

: 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 presence of the HFTs and is increasing with the size of the trade. In particular … PTs lose revenue in every trade intermediated by HFTs, they are compensated with a higher liquidity discount in the market …