This paper examines the effect of trading intensity and OTC transactions on expected market conditions in the early development period of the European Carbon futures market. Past duration and trading intensity are used as information related order flow variables in modelling time between...

This paper identifies the classes of agents at play in the European Carbon Futures Market and analyses their trading behaviour during the market's early development period. A number of hypotheses related to microstructure are tested using enhanced three-regime specifications of smooth transition...

This paper identifies the classes of agents at play in the European Carbon Futures Market and analyzes their trading behaviour during the market's early development period. A number of hypotheses related to microstructure are tested using enhanced ACD models. Evidence is presented that the...

We investigate whether liquidity introduces or helps resolve uncertainty in Phase I and the first year of Phase II of the European carbon futures market. We propose a distinction between ‘absolute’ or overall liquidity and that which is ‘relative’ to a benchmark. For this purpose, we...

This paper uses the foreign information transmission (FIT) model of Ibrahim and Brzeszczynski [Inter-regional and region-specific transmission of international stock market returns: The role of foreign information. <italic>Journal of International Money and Finance</italic> 28, no. 2: 322-43] to quantify the...

This paper uses stochastic-parameter regressions to analyze the role of foreign information on the return equivalent of the heat wave and meteor shower hypotheses of Engle etal. [Engle, R.F., Ito, T., Lin, W., 1990 Meteor showers or heat waves? Heteroscedastic intra-daily volatility in the...

This paper investigates the micro and macro effects of income tax on large scale portfolio optimization. Stochastic integer programming is used to optimize post-tax large-scale portfolios when the global market is segmented by regional tax rules. A broad range of realistic trading rules and...