This study explores the integration of the markets for NYSE-listed stocks. Although the NYSE bid or offer is part of the best displayed intermarket quote roughly ninety percent of the time, there is some evidence that non-NYSE markets do on occasion contribute to price discovery. Actual...

En este estudio se calculan y analizan algunos indicadores de concentración aplicados a la distribución departamental de: (i) captaciones (en pesos) de establecimientos bancarios, discriminadas en 7 productos financieros: depósitos en cuenta corriente bancaria, depósitos simples,...

En este estudio se calculan y analizan algunos indicadores de concentración aplicados a la distribución departamental de: (i) captaciones (en pesos) de establecimientos bancarios, discriminadas en 7 productos financieros: depósitos en cuenta corriente bancaria, depósitos simples,...

The paper sets out different perspectives on the bank-based vs market-based typology of financial systems. It presents a general critique of the typology, paying particular attention to the ways in which the typology reflects a loanable funds approach, ignoring the roles of banks in the credit...

We compare institutional execution costs across the major U.S. exchanges using a sample of institutional equity orders in firms that switch exchanges. Execution costs including commissions are essentially indistinguishable across these exchanges. We also find the fraction of trading volume from...

We address two important themes associated with institutions’ trading in foreignmarkets: (1) the choice of trading venues (between a company’s listing in its home market and that in theUnited States as anAmerican Depositary Receipt [ADR]) and (2) the comparison of trading costs across the...

We investigate the effects of competition and signaling in a pure order driven market and examine the trading patterns of agents when walking through the book is not allowed. Our results suggest that the variables capturing the cost of a large market order are not informative for an impatient...

The paper investigates the trading mechanism and other structural features of 51 stock exchanges and analyzes the impact of these institutional characteristics on liquidity measures such as closing bid-ask spreads, volatility and trading turnover. Exchange-design features such as narrower tick...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has recently attempted to establish a new form of insider trading: the use of nonpublic information about mutual fund portfolio holdings to engage in fund arbitrage. In a series of settled cases, the SEC has alleged that fund managers violated rules...

The supply/demand of a security in the market is an intertemporal, not a static, object and its dynamics are crucial in determining market participants' trading behavior. Previous studies on the optimal trading strategy to execute a given order focuses mostly on the static properties of the...