We model the impact costs of a strategy that trades a basket of correlated instruments, by extending to the multivariate case the linear propagator model previously used for single instruments. Our specification allows us to calibrate a cost model that is free of arbitrage and price...

We revisit the trading invariance hypothesis recently proposed by Kyle and Obizhaeva [1] by empirically investigating a large dataset of bets, or metaorders, provided by ANcerno. The hypothesis predicts that the quantity I := R/N3/2 , where R is the exchanged risk (volatility × volume × price)...

We reconsider the multivariate Kyle model in a risk-neutral setting with a single, perfectly informed rational insider and a rational competitive market maker, setting the price of n correlated securities. We prove the unicity of a symmetric, positive definite solution for the impact matrix and...

Portfolio managers’ orders trade off return and trading cost predictions. Return predictions rely on alpha models, whereas price impact models quantify trading costs. This paper studies what happens when trades are based on an incorrect price impact model, so that the portfolio either over- or...

There is a big controversy about the consequences of High-Frequency Traders (HFTs) activity on market quality. This empirical study uses a unique data set provided by the French regulator "Autorité des Marchés Financiers" and gives some evidence concerning the practices of these members under...

Using a large database of US institutional investors' trades in the equity market, this paper explores the effect of simultaneous executions on trading cost. We design a Bayesian network modelling the inter-dependencies between investors' transaction costs, stock characteristics (bid-ask spread,...

We relax the strong rationality assumption for the agents in the paradigmatic Kyle model of price formation, thereby reconciling the framework of asymmetrically informed traders with the Adaptive Market Hypothesis, where agents use inductive rather than deductive reasoning. Building on these...