The advances in computer and communication technologies have created new opportunities for improving, extending the application of or even developing new trading strategies. Transformations have been observed both at the level of investment decisions, as well as at the order execution layer....

This dissertation develops a model of the illiquidity transmission from spot to futures markets that formalizes the derivative hedge theory of Cho and Engle (1999). The model shows that spot market illiquidity does not translate one to one to the futures market but, rather, interacts with price...

Bubbles are omnipresent in lab experiments with asset markets. Most of these experiments were conducted in environments with only human traders. Today markets are substantially determined by algorithmic traders. Here we use a laboratory experiment to measure changes of human trading behavior if...

Bubbles are omnipresent in lab experiments with asset markets. But these experiments were (mostly) conducted in environments with only human traders. Today markets are substantially determined by algorithmic traders. Here we use a laboratory experiment to measure human trading behaviour changes...

We analyze securities trading by banks and the associated spillovers to the supply of credit.Empirical analysis has been elusive due to the lack of securities register for banks. We use a unique, proprietary dataset that has the investments of banks at the security level for 2005-2012 in...

In this paper, the author considers sovereign debt in the form of one-period government bonds with default risk, which can be purchased by and traded among domestic and foreign investors. She shows that the "good equilibrium" is the only stable equilibrium under some quite general assumptions,...

On November 14th, 2014, SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum – and CNMV, Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores – the Spanish Authority for supervision of securities markets – jointly organized a conference in Madrid: Challenges in Securities Markets Regulation: Investor...

Introduction: the ethnography of noise in electronic finance -- Noise in financial markets -- How does one become a trader? -- Taking on the market: competitions and spectacle in trading -- Rituals and illusions of the trading screen -- Talk in trading, talk for trading, talk of trading: group...

Machine generated contents note: Preface ix CHAPTER 1 The Basics of Algorithmic Trading 1 CHAPTER 2 Factor Models 27 CHAPTER 3 Time-Series Analysis 59 CHAPTER 4 Artificial Intelligence Techniques 83 CHAPTER 5 Options Strategies 119 CHAPTER 6 Intraday Trading and Market Microstructure 159 CHAPTER...

Die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit widmet sich der Thematik verhaltensorientierter Handelsstrategien zur Erzielung von Überrenditen am internationalen Aktienmarkt. Marktanomalien, die nicht im Einklang mit der neoklassischen Kapitalmarkttheorie stehen, bilden den primären Ansatzpunkt...

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction. Real markets and financial markets; Part I. Definition of a Security : When to Leave Buyer Beware for Seller Disclose?: 2. Toward defining a security; 3. The vacuous definition of a security; 4. The function of investment contract; 5. Pricing...