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....

This paper studies the effects of the introduction of the French financial transaction tax in August 2012. With the tax, the French government aims to generate revenues for financing the burdens of the financial crisis and to curb short-term trading. We find that the financial transaction tax...

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...

Since the implementation of the European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), multilateral trading facilities (MTF) have broken down the quasi-monopoly which has been traditionally held by national exchanges across Europe. To date, incumbent exchanges and various MTFs fiercely...