This paper studies the impact of public information on trading and market fragmentation in FTSE 100 stocks on the LSE and on Chi-X, the largest multilateral trading facility in Europe. We proxy daily public information through newswire messages which we di erentiate by their ex-ante sentiment....

How information is translated into market prices is still an open question. This paper studies the impact of newswire messages on intraday price discovery, liquidity, and trading intensity in an electronic limit order market. We take an objective ex-ante measure of the tone of a message to study...

The trust-free nature of blockchain-based systems challenges the role of traditional platform providers and enables the creation of new, intermediary-free markets. Despite the growing number of such markets, the impact of the blockchain's configuration on market outcomes remains unclear. In this...

We analyze the predictability of the bitcoin market across prediction horizons ranging from 1 to 60 min. In doing so, we test various machine learning models and find that, while all models outperform a random classifier, recurrent neural networks and gradient boosting classifiers are especially...