Objective: One of the common tools used to make pre-trade transparency in financial markets is the Limit Order Book. In spite of several researches on the Limit Order Book, there is no consensus about the impact of increasing pre-trade transparency on market quality. Increasing the number of Limit Order Book levels from 3 to 5 levels, in May 2017, for online traders in Tehran Stock Exchange, ga...

This paper studies a financial exchange in which liquidity may “dry up” endogenously. The drought is generated on a model of a limit order book under conditions of asymmetric information and an evolving fundamental. The book exhibits an equilibrium spread that is in steady state when it balances the rate that traders acquire information with the rate at which their stock of information decays. ...