This research analyses high-frequency data of the cryptocurrency market in regards to intraday trading patterns. We study trading quantitatives such as returns, traded volumes, volatility periodicity, and provide summary statistics of return correlations to CRIX (CRyptocurrency IndeX), as well...

We study empirically how competition among high-frequency traders (HFTs) affects their trading behavior and market quality. Our analysis exploits a unique dataset, which allows us to compare environments with and without high-frequency competition, and contains an exogenous event - a tick size...

I study empirically how competition among high-frequency traders (HFTs) affects their trading behavior and market quality. The analysis exploits a unique dataset, which allows comparing environments with and without high-frequency competition, and contains an exogenous event - a tick size reform...

We estimate variance risk premiums (VRPs) in the stock markets of major advanced economies (AEs) and emerging market economies (EMEs) over 2007-15 and decompose the VRP into variance-diffusive risk premium (DRP) and variance-jump risk premium (JRP). Daily VAR analysis reveals significant...

We find that US cross-listing of Canadian stocks enhances domestic high-frequency trading (HFT) activity in the form of both opportunistic trading and market-making. First, US cross-listing boosts HFT low-latency cross-border arbitrage. This highly correlated HFT arbitrage activity across...

This study compares the pricing efficiency of two domestic exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (i.e., Falcom 30 and HSBC 20) listed on the Saudi stock exchange (i.e., Tadawul), as well as an international ETF (i.e., iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia) listed on the NYSE, by examining the extent and properties...

Purpose - This article examines whether deviations from fundamental value or closed-end country fund's discounts or premiums forecast future share price returns or net asset returns. Design/methodology/approach - The main empirical (econometric) tool is a vector autoregressive (VAR) model. The...

We study empirically how competition among high-frequency traders (HFTs) affects their trading behavior and market quality. Our analysis exploits a unique dataset, which allows us to compare environments with and without high-frequency competition, and contains an exogenous event - a tick size...

This study examines the impact of investors' buy and sell trades on Korean stock market volatility across two crisis events, the Asian crisis of 1997 and the 2008 global financial crash. We investigate the trading behaviour of domestic vs. foreign and institutional vs. individual investors. Our...

In this paper, we examine whether the creation or redemption ETF shares has a measurable and significant effect on the underlying stocks' returns in the closing auction. Our findings show that ETF flow-related stock transactions significantly affect stock prices. We provide empirical evidence...