The paper examines the concept of tokenizing assets on public permissionless blockchains such as Ethereum, Algorand or Avalanche. It starts with an overview of the core principles and components of public blockchains, such as the ownership attribution and efficient transaction processing. The...

We investigate the potential for automated market makers (AMMs) to be economically viable in and improve traditional financial markets. AMMs are a new type of trading institution that have emerged in the world of crypto-assets and process a significant portion of global crypto trading volume....

We develop a financial market trading model in the tradition of Glosten and Milgrom (1985) that allows us to incorporate non-trivial volume. We observe that in this model price volatility is positively related to the trading volume and to the absolute value of the net order flow, i.e. the order...

We provide a three way theoretical comparison of dealer, limit order, and hybrid markets and analyze the impact that the organization of trading has on volume, liquidity, and price efficiency. We find, in particular, that trading volume is highest in the limit order market and lowest in the...

In a dynamic model of financial market trading multiple heterogeneously informed traders choose when to place orders. Better informed traders trade immediately, worse informed delay — even though they expect the public expectation to move against them. This behavior causes distinct intra-day...

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Facing increased competition over the last decade, many stock exchanges changed their trading fees to maker-taker pricing, an incentive scheme that rewards liquidity suppliers and charges liquidity demanders. Using a change in trading fees on the Toronto Stock Exchange, we...</p>

In a dynamic model of financial market trading multiple heterogeneously informed traders choose when to place orders. Better informed traders trade immediately, worse informed delay – even though they expect the market to move against them. This behavior generates intraday patterns with...