Kyle (1985) builds a pioneering and influential model, in which an insider observing private information submits an optimal order given the market-maker’s pricing rule, which is assumed a linear function of the aggregated order flow. We propose an extension to Kyle's model where different...

Using a large database of the US institutional investors' trades, this paper sheds new light on the question of anomalies-based portfolio transaction costs. We find that the real costs paid by large investors to implement the well-identified Fama-French anomalies (size, value, investment, and...

Using a large database of US institutional investors' trades in the equity market, this paper explores the effect of simultaneous executions on trading cost. We design a Bayesian network modelling the inter-dependencies between investors' transaction costs, stock characteristics (bid-ask spread,...

"Financial Markets in Practice: From Post-Crisis Intermediation to FinTechs delivers an overview of risk transformations operated by the financial industries from the perspective of quantitative finance. It gives a pedagogical and comprehensive understanding of the structure of the financial...