This study analyses the repercussions of the existence of minimum price variations(ticks) to different market variables. Specifically, we focus on the behaviour of bid-askspread, market depth, trading activity, volatility and investor order submission strategies. Weuse the change which occurred...

Determining the degree of informational asymmetry is a major topic in the literature of modern microstructure. In this paper, we review and analyze the suitability of the models for estimating the probability of informed trading [Easley et al., 1996; Nyholm, 2002, 2003]. The empirical analysis is...