This paper analyzes the impact of both penal law and prosecution of insider trading on the informational efficiency of securities markets. We show that increasing the severity of penalties to insider trading as well as making insider prosecution more efficient might improve the price discovery...

We model financial innovations such as Exchange-Traded Funds, smart beta products, and many index-based vehicles as composite securities that facilitate trading common factors in assets' liquidation values. Through accessing a larger basket of assets in endogenously-chosen proportions, composite...

BitMEX is the largest unregulated bitcoin derivatives exchange, listing contracts suitable for leverage trading and hedging. Using minute-by-minute data, we examine its price discovery and hedging effectiveness. We find that BitMEX derivatives lead prices on major bitcoin spot exchanges. Bid-ask...

In an informational efficient market, it is the a priori expectation that trading activities should possess a directorial relationship (Barron Karpoff, 2004). Positive information which promises a better performance should ordinarily affect trading volume positively and vice versa. However, that...

High Frequency Trading (HFT) is a form of algorithmic trading where firms use high-speed market data and analytics to look for short-term supply and demand trading opportunities that often are the product of predictable behavioral or mechanical characteristics of financial markets. Often called...