In this paper we design a test to detect the arrivals of jumps in asset prices contaminated by market microstructure noise. This test is defined by means of the truncated two-scales realized volatility estimator, recently introduced in Brownlees, Nualart, and Sun (2016), which is a robust estimator of the realized volatility in the presence of price jumps and market microstructure noise. We der...

Using recent advances in the econometrics literature, we disentangle from high frequency observations on the transaction prices of a large sample of NYSE stocks a fundamental component and a microstructure noise component. We then relate these statistical measurements of market microstructure noise to observable characteristics of the underlying stocks and, in particular, to different financial...

We consider the best quadratic unbiased estimators of the integrated variance in the presence of independent market microstructure noise. We establish the asymptotic normality of a feasible best quadratic unbiased estimator under the assumption of constant volatility and show that it is asymptotically e cient when the market microstructure noise is normal. Since the class of quadratic estimator...

Parimutuel principles are widely used as an alternative to fixed odds gambling in which a bookmaker acts as a dealer by quoting fixed rates of return on specified wagers. A parimutuel game is conducted as a call auction in which odds are allowed to fluctuate during the betting period until the betting period is closed or the auction ‘called’. The prices or odds of wagers are set based upon the ...

Microstructure models of foreign exchange markets emphasize two different channels of pressure in pricing dynamics; these are inventory and asymmetric information effects. Past empirical studies for foreign exchange markets have found evidence supporting the existence of both effects in the Dollar/DM market. This paper tests for the presence of within sample variation in the intensity of these ...

This article discusses the microstructure of the U.S. Treasury securities market. Treasury securities are nominally riskless debt instruments issued by the U.S. government. Microstructural analysis is a field of economics/finance that examines the roles played by heterogenous agents, institutional detail, and asymmetric information in the trading process. The article describes types of Treasury...

We introduce a new model for describing the fluctuations of a tick-by-tick single asset price. Our model is based on Markov renewal processes. We consider a point process associated to the timestamps of the price jumps, and marks associated to price increments. By modeling the marks with a suitable Markov chain, we can reproduce the strong mean-reversion of price returns known as microstructure...

The paper investigates the properties of the equilibrium outcomes and the microstructure of the markets where the sellers announce their demands but do not necessarily commit, while the buyers move back and forth between the sellers to negotiate for a better deal by extending the analysis of the multilateral bargaining problem introduced in Ozyurt (2009). When the sellers are constrained to ann...