Market microstructure during financial crisis: Dynamics of informed and heuristic-driven trading

Financial market crisis and financial market channel

Optimal Informed Trading in a Quote-Driven Market

This paper presents a model of a quote-driven market with asymmetric information. The model is similar to the Glosten-Milgrom (1985) model, except that we allow the informed trader to optimally time his trades, rather than employing a probabilistic selection process for informed and uninformed trades. The contribution of the paper is to show that the probabilistic arrival process is a robust as...

Financial Crisis Contagion and the OPEC Oil Market

The impact of the financial crisis on the OPEC oil market is important to us as an important member of OPEC and an oil-exporting country with an oil-dependent economy. This study examines four networks, pre-financial crisis, US financial crisis, European debt crisis and post-financial crisis, using the contagion index and complex network for the period 2007-1-2 to 26-8-2019. The results show th...

J-REIT Market Quality: Impact of High Frequency Trading and the Financial Crisis

Using the introduction of Arrowhead low latency trading platform by Tokyo Stock Exchange as a natural experiment, I analyze the impact of high frequency trading on market quality of JREITs, in terms of liquidity, volatility, and systemic risks. I also analyze the impact of the 2008 financial crisis. The results document that while the crisis has significantly deteriorated the market quality, th...

The Probability of Informed Trading and the Performance of Stock in an Order-Driven Market

We estimate the probability of informed trading (Pi) in an order-driven stock market and perform a comprehensive analysis on the interrelations among Pi and three common performance indicators: liquidity, volatility, and efficiency. We find that uninformed traders exhibit price chasing behavior, and price volatility attracts uninformed traders. Using 3SLS which considers the endogeneity of Pi a...