This paper provides a survey of dark pools, focusing on block-crossing venues. We examine years of data from within Liquidnet's dark pool to quantify econometric characteristics of these pools including their market impact and spread savings, effectively quantifying the benefits of natural...

This article provides a novel framework to evaluate limit order tactics that highlights expected fill price, adverse price selection cost, and opportunity cost. We formulate the problem of optimal execution of market orders with nonlinear market impact, power law decay kernel, and stochastic and...