Crowding is most likely an important factor in the deterioration of strategy performance, the increase of trading costs and the development of systemic risk. We study the imprints of crowding on both anonymous market data and a large database of metaorders from institutional investors in the...

We model the impact costs of a strategy that trades a basket of correlated instruments, by extending to the multivariate case the linear propagator model previously used for single instruments. Our specification allows us to calibrate a cost model that is free of arbitrage and price...

The notion of market impact is subtle and sometimes misinterpreted. Here we argue thatimpact should not be misconstrued as volatility. In particular, the so-called “square-root impactlaw”, which states that impact grows as the square-root of traded volume, has nothing todo with price...

The vast majority of recent studies in market impact assess each product individually, and the interactions between their order flows are disregarded. This strong approximation may lead to an underestimation of trading costs and possible contagion effects. Transactions mediate a significant part...

We reconsider the multivariate Kyle model in a risk-neutral setting with a single, perfectly informed rational insider and a rational competitive market maker, setting the price of n correlated securities. We prove the unicity of a symmetric, positive definite solution for the impact matrix and...

Trading a financial instrument induces a price response on itself and on other correlated instruments, a phenomenon known as cross-impact. Unfortunately, empirical measures of cross-impact are affected by a large estimation error due to both the large number of interactions to infer and the...

We provide an economically sound micro-foundation to linear price impact models, by deriving them as the equilibrium of a suitable agent-based system. Our setup generalizes the well-known Kyle model, by dropping the assumption of a terminal time at which fundamental information is revealed so to...

We relax the strong rationality assumption for the agents in the paradigmatic Kyle model of price formation, thereby reconciling the framework of asymmetrically informed traders with the Adaptive Market Hypothesis, where agents use inductive rather than deductive reasoning. Building on these...