Essays on the Interface of Market Microstructure and Behavioral Finance
Author: Juhani Linnainmaa
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9789517917827
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Author: Juhani Linnainmaa
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9789517917827
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Published: 2009
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jie Lu
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 141
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis dissertation is comprised of three essays that study behavioral finance and market microstructure. The first essay models a game of individual day traders' interactions in a stock trading chat room and empirically tests the model's conclusions. Trading behaviors are analyzed in an Internet chat room with free entry but secure identity, and traders' interactions are modeled as a dynamic game with informed traders, momentum traders, arbitragers and noise traders. Three empirical predictions are generated in the model's equilibrium. The unique data set consists of stock trading chat room posts of more than 1,000 individual semi-professional day traders and their interactions and transactions are investigated in a time series. All the three predictions from the model's equilibrium are affirmed by empirical tests. The second essay assesses the effects of the entire limit order book and analyzes the market impacts of the quotes in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange in China, where the stock market has a pure order-driven trading mechanism without market makers. Firstly, in the empirical modeling the limit order books, the structural vector autoregressive model of Hasbrouck (1991) is used and extended to incorporate more information beyond the inside quotes. Secondly, the market impact of stocks is also analyzed cross sectionally with market capitalization, tick frequency, turnover, average price, etc. Finally, the market impacts and order imbalance of small trades are distinguished. Small trades, usually linked with individual investors, have proportionally small market impact. Besides, the volume-weighted daily order imbalances of small trades and next-day's and contemporaneous daily returns are negatively related with each other. This is in accordance with the 'pain theory' of the individual traders. The third essay investigates microstructure characteristics of the Credit Default Swap (CDS) market. During the sample period, April 2006 -- March 2008, CDS are traded on the over-the-counter (OTC) market, through brokers' voice-based or electronic-based systems. The study analyzes CDS spread, trade-to-quote ratio, bid-ask spread, the frequency that the orders fall between the quotes, and the relationship between the order imbalance and the daily change of CDS spread.
Author: Peter Joakim Westerholm
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2018-11-29
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9813234113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, written by Joakim Westerholm, Professor of Finance and former trading professional, is intended to be used as basis for developing courses in Securities markets, Trading, and Market microstructure and connects theoretic rigor with practical real world applications.Market technology evolves, the roles of market participants change, and whole market segments disappear to be replaced by new ways to exchange securities. Yet, the same underlying economic principles continue to drive trading in securities markets. Thus, the scope of the book is global, providing a framework that is relevant both for current market designs and for future markets we will see develop. It is designed to stay relevant in a rapidly evolving field.The book contains a selection of lecture notes through which students will gain an in-depth understanding of the mechanism that drives trading in securities markets. The book also contains another set of lecture notes with more advanced, research-based material, suitable for Honours or Master level research students, or for PhD candidates. The material is self-explanatory and can also be used for self-study, preferably in conjunction with assigned readings.
Author: Ekaterina V. Malinova
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9780542789533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding the forces for price formation and asset trading is the backbone of modern financial economics. In the oldest of adages, people trade because they differ---either informationally or from a risk sharing perspective. My thesis focuses on the former and investigates how asymmetric information affects the behavior of financial market participants, and through it, asset prices and trading volume.
Author: Yi Xue
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 294
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis thesis consists of three essays that study three interdependent topics: microstructure foundation of volatility clustering, inefficiency of information diffusion and jump detection in high frequency financial time series data. Volatility clustering, with autocorrelations of the hyperbolic decay rate, is unquestionably one of the most important stylized facts of financial time series. The first essay forms Chapter 1 which presents a market microstructure model that is able to generate volatility clustering with hyperbolic autocorrelations through traders with multiple trading frequencies using Bayesian information updating in an incomplete market. The model illustrates that signal extraction, which is induced by multiple trading frequency, can increase the persistence of the volatility of returns. Furthermore, it is shown that the local temporal memory of the underlying time series of returns and their volatility varies greatly with the number of traders in the market. The second essay, Chapter 2, presents a market microstructure model showing that an increasing number of information hierarchies among informed competitive traders leads to a slower information diffusion rate and informational inefficiency. The model illustrates that informed traders may prefer trading with each other rather than with noise traders in the presence of the information hierarchies. Furthermore, it is shown that momentum can be generated from the trend following behavior pattern of noise traders. I propose a new nonparametric test based on wavelets to detect jump arrivals in high frequency financial time series data, in the third essay, Chapter 3. It is demonstrated that the test is robust for different specifications of price processes and the presence of market microstructure noise and it has good size and power. Further, I examine the multi-scale jump dynamics in U.S. equity markets and the findings are as follows. First, the jump dynamics of equities are entirely different across different time scales. Second, although arrival densities of positive jumps and negative jumps are symmetric across different time scales, the magnitude of jumps is distributed asymmetrically at high frequencies. Third, only twenty percent of jumps occur in the trading session from 9:30AM to 4:00PM, suggesting that jumps are largely determined by news rather than liquidity shocks.
Author: Jhinyoung Shin
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joel Hasbrouck
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-01-04
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 019988532X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe interactions that occur in securities markets are among the fastest, most information intensive, and most highly strategic of all economic phenomena. This book is about the institutions that have evolved to handle our trading needs, the economic forces that guide our strategies, and statistical methods of using and interpreting the vast amount of information that these markets produce. The book includes numerous exercises.
Author: Jianning Huang
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis dissertation research comprises one essay on market microstructure and two essays on corporate finance and financial institutions. In the first essay, I examine the effects of a speed bump on market quality and exchange competition. After a long period of facilitating faster trading, exchanges are now trying to slow down trading with speed bumps. I study how this market-design innovation affects traders reaction times, the market quality of stocks, and the operators of competing exchanges. Post speed bump, I find slower reaction times to order book events and reduced order detection and back-running. Reduction in quote-to-trade ratio and flickering quotes improves market quality. Exchanges without planned speed bumps lose market share, with reduced return on their share price, enterprise value, and investment in high-speed assets. Their stocks become attractive for short sellers. In the second essay, I investigate the governance role of banks by examining lenders monitoring effect on borrowers tax planning. I posit that lenders monitoring has an impact on borrowers tax planning on the two ends of the continuum of tax planning strategies. I show that firms with a larger portion of loan shares held by lead lenders, with loans led by reputable lenders and with a single-lending relationship have lower effective tax rates and less egregious tax aggressiveness. I also document that borrowers with loan sales that weaken lenders monitoring incentives tend to have higher effective tax rates and more egregious tax aggressiveness. Moreover, our results on tax aggressiveness are stronger for firms with more intense shareholder-debtholder conflict. In the third essay, I use the China setting to study the determinants and impact of equity pledges by large shareholders. I find that the likelihood of equity pledges increases with recent stock returns and firm financial constraints. The market reacts positively to equity pledge announcements, especially when the lender is a securities firm. Moreover, firms whose shares are pledged subsequently improve operating performance and manage earnings less. Collectively, our results are consistent with equity pledges being used as a commitment device by large shareholders not to expropriate from minority shareholders and ultimately benefits outside shareholders..
Author: Ken Nyholm (FIN)
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Published: 1998
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ISBN-13: 9788789695495
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