This paper studies invariance relationships in tick-by-tick transaction data in the U.S. stock market. Over the 1993–2001 period, the estimated monthly regression coefficients of the log of trade arrival rate on the log of trading activity have an almost constant value of 0.666, strikingly...

In electronic, liquid markets, traders frequently change their positions. The distribution of these trader position changes carries important information about liquidity demand in the market. From this distribution of trader position-changes, we construct a marketwide measure for intraday...

This paper studies invariance relationships in tick-by-tick transaction data in the U.S. stock market. Over 1993-2001, monthly regression coefficients of the log of the trade arrival rate on the log of trading activity have an almost constant value of 0.666, close to the value of 2/3 predicted...

This paper investigates the impact of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the liquidity of their underlying stockholdings. Using a difference-in-differences methodology for large changes in the index weights of stocks in the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 indexes, we find that increases in ETF ownership are...