Trades, quotes and prices financial markets under the microscope

The widespread availability of high-quality, high-frequency data has revolutionised the study of financial markets. By describing not only asset prices, but also market participants' actions and interactions, this wealth of information offers a new window into the inner workings of the financia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe, Bonart, Julius (Author), Donier, Jonathan (Author), Gould, Martin (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Preface; Part I. How and Why Do Prices Move?: 1. The ecology of financial markets; 2. The statistics of price changes: an informal primer; Part II. Limit Order Books: Introduction: 3. Limit order books; 4. Empirical properties of limit order books; Part III. Limit Order Books: Models: 5. Single-queue dynamics: simple models; 6. Single-queue dynamics for large-tick stocks; 7. Joint-queue dynamics for large-tick stocks; 8. The Santa Fe model for limit order books; Part IV. Clustering and Correlations: 9. Time clustering and Hawkes processes; 10. Long-range persistence of order flow; Part V. Price Impact: 11. The impact of market orders; 12. The impact of metaorders; Part VI. Six Market Dynamics at the Micro-scale: 13. The propagator model; 14. Generalised propagator models; Part VII. Adverse Selection and Liquidity Provision: 15. The Kyle model; 16. The determinants of the bid-ask spread; 17. The profitability of market making; Part VIII. Market Dynamics at the Meso-scale: 18. Latent liquidity and Walrasian auctions; 19. Impact dynamics in a continuous-time double auction; 20. The information content of prices; Part IX. Practical Consequences: 21. Optimal execution; 22. Market fairness and stability; 23. Appendices; Index