I. Conceptual studies of market liquidity Dupont, D " The effects of transaction costs on depth and spread " Gravelle, T " The market microstructure of dealership equity and government securities markets: how they differ " Muranaga, J and Shimizu, T " Market microstructure and market liquidity " Ui, T " Transparency and liquidity in securities markets " II. Empirical studies of market liquidity...

The observed transaction prices on a stock market at discrete time points are assumed to be a sample from a continuous time-value process. The theory of an efficient market is used as motivation for a random-walk type model. The fact that bid-ask spread and other microstructure phenomena exist is accounted for by adding a noise term to the model. Models for elementary detrending based on stocha...

This thesis investigates the price discovery in the foreign exchange market using high frequency data. Traditional exchange rate models assume market homogeneity and the sole existence of public information. However. recent studies suggest such assumptions are not well founded and have generated the 'disconnection' puzzle of exchange rates deviating from their fundamentals in the short and medi...

The design of the microstructure of electronic markets is crucial for their success. Less effort has been made in this area, especially for commodity markets. This paper illustrates five key problems of e-market design and introduces the concept of cascading dynamic market models as a promising solution to cope with most of them. Taking the multi-dimensional character of commodities into consid...

This study analyzes the market quality differences, in terms of liquidity and volatility, between Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and non-REIT common stocks. The 2008 financial crisis has significantly influenced the market quality for REITs. Our findings reveal intraday patterns indicating a lower liquidity, higher volatility, and greater price impact for REITs than nonREITs for pre-cris...

I analyze company news from Reuters with the ‘General Inquirer’ and relate measures of positive sentiment, negative sentiment and disagreement to abnormal stock returns, stock and option trading volume, the volatility spread and the CDS spread. I test hypotheses derived from market microstructure models. Consistent with these models, sentiment and disagreement are strongly related to trading vo...

We examine optimal execution models that take into account both market microstructure impact and informational costs. Informational footprint is related to order flow and is represented by the trader’s influence on the flow imbalance process, while microstructure influence is captured by instantaneous price impact. We propose a continuous-time stochastic control problem that balances between th...

In the residential real estate market, sellers arrive dynamically over time to put their units up for sale. These assets may differ in their attributes, including location, size, style, acreage, etc. Sellers themselves differ in their own financial constraints, carrying costs, and their delay tolerances, i.e., how long they are willing to wait until they sell their unit. Buyers arrive dynamical...