PRICE DYNAMICS, INFORMATIONAL EFFICIENCY, AND WEALTH DISTRIBUTION IN CONTINUOUS DOUBLE-AUCTION MARKETS

Price Dynamics, Informational Efficiency, and Wealth Distribution in Continuous Double-Auction Markets

This paper studies the properties of the continuous double auction trading mechanism using an artificial market populated by heterogeneous computational agents. In particular, we investigate how changes in the population of traders and in market microstructure characteristics affect price dynamics, information dissemination and distribution of wealth across agents. In our computer simulated mar...

Information perception and price dynamics in a continuous double auction

Trading Restrictions, Price Dynamics and allocative Efficiency in Double Auction Markets: Analysis Based on Agent-Based Modeling and Simulations

In this paper we conduct two experiments within an agent-based double auction market. These two experiments allow us to see the effect of learning and smartness on price dynamics and allocative efficiency. Our results are largely consistent with the stylized facts observed in experimental economics with human subjects. From the amelioration of price deviation and allocative efficiency, the effe...

Basket Securities, Price Formation, and Informational Efficiency

This paper investigates the role of basket securities in the efficient price formation process of individual component securities. The study focuses on one type of basket security, exchange traded funds (ETFs), which includes some of the most actively traded securities in the U.S. equity market. A multi-asset variance decomposition methodology is developed to measure the information contributio...

Impact and Volatility in Double Auction Markets

We argue that on electronic markets, limit and market orders should have equal effective costs on average. This symmetry implies a linear relation between the bid-ask spread and the average impact of market orders. Our empirical observations on different markets are consistent with this hypothesis. We then use this relation to justify a simple, and hitherto unnoticed, proportionality relation b...