We investigate the information content of the limit order book (LOB) on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the world's second largest order-driven exchange1. Microstructure parameters, such as the current cost-to-trade 1% of average daily volume and order book slope, consistently and significantly...

In a single market, liquidity supply has two dimensions--price measured by the quoted spread, and quantity measured by the quoted depth. A third liquidity dimension, market breath, should be added when multiple markets quote the same security and there are enforceable regulatory penalties for a...

Like many countries, the U.S. is concerned that short selling might destabilize markets. Currently, U.S. SEC Rule 201 restricts short selling for stocks that decline 10 percent from the previous day's closing price. Historically, the U.S. has implemented both an uptick rule and a downtick rule...

Modern equity markets have both fast traders such as dealers, market makers, and high frequency traders and slow traders such as retail clients. We model and show empirically that latency differences allow fast liquidity suppliers to pick off slow liquidity demanders at prices inferior to the...

We investigate the information content of the limit order book (LOB) on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the world's second largest order-driven market. We find that high frequency microstructure parameters, such as the current cost-to-trade 1% of average daily volume and LOB slope, contain information...

It is found that insiders are more likely to trade on high volume days, which indicates an effort to hide their trades. Further, insider trading raises the number of days with abnormally high trading volume only slightly, again indicating that insiders are avoiding attracting attention. No...

We analyze and compare the information quality of order flows on the exchange and on off-exchange venues reported to Trade Reporting Facilities. Compared to exchange order flow, we find that off-exchange order flow has significantly lower information quality, including a lower information ratio...

In this paper we suggest that market makers deduce the extent of the adverse selection problem associated with a stock (and set up the bid-ask spread accordingly) by observing how many financial analysts are following that stock. Market makers do this based on the belief that more financial...