We show that wholesalers internalize unbalanced amounts of retail order flow to provide liquidity to institutional investors. The Tick Size Pilot highlights how wholesaler incentives affect the magnitude and composition of internalized retail trade imbalances (Mroib, Boehmer et al.\ 2021). Large...

The recent absence of a discernible liquidity premium in cross-sectional stock returns despite non-trivial trade execution costs is a puzzle. We resolve this puzzle using a proxy for institutional trading costs that exploits the unique institutional features of modern U.S. equity markets....

Tick sizes provide a market quality tradeoff between pricing fidelity and undercutting - suggesting that the same tick size change may affect narrow and wide-spread stocks differently. Using comprehensive depth-of-book data we study the imposition and conclusion of the Tick Size Pilot (TSP)...

I develop a model that quantifies the profitability of trading from limit order data. This method allows for estimation of the effective number of market participants without the need for trader IDs or proprietary datasets. In addition, my framework can evaluate several different questions in...

Theories of customer supplier relationships hold that the private information of suppliers about buyers explains the use of trade credit even when there is a competitive banking sector. If suppliers possess private information about their buyers, then the buyer's order size and ability to pay on...