Motivated by the desire to bridge the gap between the microscopic description of price formation (agent-based modeling) and the stochastic differential equations approach used classically to describe price evolution at macroscopic time scales, we present a mathematical study of the order book as...

The management of correlation risk is of the utmost importance in several areas of investment banking: multi-asset derivatives pricing and hedging, optimal asset allocation, risk management, statistical arbitrage and many others.§ However, the modeling of correlation as a time-dependent...

We investigate the statistical properties of the EBS order book for the EUR/USD and USD/JPY currency pairs and the impact of a ten-fold tick size reduction on its dynamics. A large fraction of limit orders are still placed right at or halfway between the old allowed prices. This generates price...