Within this course you will learn about price formation and liquidity in securities markets. You will discover the determinants of market depth and security trading. In particular, the course focuses on price formation and liquidity in securities markets. The main issues covered are how to measure trading costs; how security prices, their liquidity and speed of price discovery are jointly determined, and how order flow affects prices; what are the determinants of market depth; how security trading is organized and regulated and how it has been reshaped by algorithmic and high frequency trading; how the organization of security trading affects trading costs and informational efficiency.
This module presents the subject of the course and its main concepts: liquidity and price discovery, and basic notions of trading in securities markets.
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21个视频5篇阅读材料3个作业
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21个视频•总计77分钟
Introduction•2分钟
Perfect vs. real-world financial markets•2分钟
Liquidity•4分钟
Price discovery•4分钟
Why should we care?•3分钟
Market microstructure and empirical puzzles•3分钟
Policy Issues•4分钟
Where does trading occur?•3分钟
Who trades securities?•2分钟
The life-cycle of an order•2分钟
The two basic trading mechanisms: limit order and dealer markets•1分钟
Limit order markets: how do they work?•8分钟
Dealer markets: how do they work?•6分钟
Many real-world markets are dual or hybrid•3分钟
Dimensions in which market platforms differ•1分钟
Market transparency•2分钟
Frequency of trading•1分钟
Interplay of public regulation and self-regulation•5分钟
Role of competition between market platforms in shaping their design•5分钟
Effect of changes in regulation on competition between platforms•6分钟
Effect of changes in technology on trading strategies and competition between platforms•9分钟
5篇阅读材料•总计51分钟
What is market microstructure?•15分钟
Basics of security trading•3分钟
Market mechanisms•15分钟
Who sets the rules?•15分钟
Key takeaways•3分钟
3个作业•总计50分钟
Why should we care?•10分钟
Limit order market•10分钟
Basics•30分钟
Measuring liquidity
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In this week you will learn that some trading costs are explicit, others implicit, and how to measure trading costs using different types of data. Furthermore, you will learn how to take the time dimension of trading into account.
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22个视频7篇阅读材料6个作业
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22个视频•总计60分钟
Explicit and implicit trading costs•3分钟
Breaking down implicit trading costs•2分钟
Data requirements of implicit trading cost measures•2分钟
Quoted spread•3分钟
Effective spread•5分钟
Realized spread•4分钟
Value-Weighted Average Price (VWAP)•3分钟
Price Impact•2分钟
Example of estimates of price impact•1分钟
Amihud Illiquidity Ratio•2分钟
Other volume-based measures•4分钟
Definition and rationale of Roll's measure•2分钟
Assumptions and derivation of Roll's measure•4分钟
Possible biases in Roll's measure•1分钟
Bias in Roll's measure due to unbalanced order flow•2分钟
Bias in Roll's measure due to autocorrelated order flow•2分钟
Bias in Roll's measure if the order flow is informative•1分钟
Bias in Roll's measure if there is a trend in expected returns•2分钟
Empirical performance of Roll's measure•2分钟
Time dimension of liquidity•3分钟
Implementation shortfall•4分钟
Intuitive meaning•5分钟
7篇阅读材料•总计41分钟
Explicit and implicit trading costs•2分钟
Quoted spread•3分钟
Spread: based measures•10分钟
Measure based on order flow and volume data•5分钟
Roll's measure•15分钟
Time dimension of liquidity•5分钟
Key takeaways•1分钟
6个作业•总计48分钟
Quoted spread•5分钟
Realized spread•5分钟
Price impact•3分钟
Assumptions and derivation of Roll's measure•3分钟
Implementation shortfall•2分钟
Measuring Liquidity•30分钟
Price dynamics and Liquidity (part 1)
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This module talks about price formation in markets with asymmetric information. You’ll understand why in these markets prices respond to the order flow and you’ll know how the informativeness of the order flow affects market liquidity and price discovery.
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16个视频4篇阅读材料4个作业
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16个视频•总计64分钟
Real-world intraday price fluctuations•3分钟
Price formation in a frictionless world•4分钟
Real-world intraday price fluctuations•2分钟
The static Glosten-Milgrom model•6分钟
Learning from the order flow•5分钟
Derivation of the first ask in the trading day•6分钟
Derivation and properties of the bid-ask spread•1分钟
Dynamics of quotes in the Glosten-Milgrom model•5分钟
Derivation and properties of the bid-ask spread at any time in the trading day•6分钟
Price dynamics in response to the order flow•5分钟
Belief dynamics and price dynamics•2分钟
Dual role of equilibrium bid and ask quotes•2分钟
Price discovery and informational efficiency•8分钟
Dynamics of squared pricing errors•5分钟
Tradeoff between speed of price discovery and market illiquidity•1分钟
Return volatility•2分钟
4篇阅读材料•总计28分钟
Price formation and order flow•4分钟
Prices with informative order flow: static model•8分钟
Prices with informative order flow: dynamic model•15分钟
Key takeaways•1分钟
4个作业•总计55分钟
Prices with informative order flow•10分钟
Examples•5分钟
Price discovery and informational efficiency•10分钟
Price Dynamics and Liquidity part 1•30分钟
Price dynamics and Liquidity (part 2)
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In this week we’ll talk about frictions that contribute to the bid-ask spread and generate mean reversion in prices and you’ll learn about order processing costs. Moreover, you’ll know the imperfect competition among market makers and how inventory holding costs of risk-averse dealers.
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16个视频5篇阅读材料3个作业
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16个视频•总计55分钟
Short term reversal in asset prices following an order•2分钟
Can informed trading account for such price reversals?•2分钟
Introduce order processing costs and inventory holding costs•2分钟
Bid-ask spread with order processing costs•3分钟
Price dynamics with order processing costs•1分钟
Short-run price impact with order processing costs•1分钟
Long-run price impact with order processing costs•1分钟
Dealer rents or order processing costs?•3分钟
Prices and bid-ask spread with inventory holding costs•5分钟
Price pressure from the order flow•10分钟
Move to a dynamic model of prices with inventory holding costs•3分钟
Dynamic optimization by dealers•8分钟
Price dynamics with inventory holding costs•1分钟
Inventory and price dynamics with inventory holding costs•3分钟
Testable implications of the dynamic inventory holding cost model•6分钟
Price dynamics if asymmetric information, order processing costs and inventory holding costs are all present•5分钟
5篇阅读材料•总计47分钟
Mean reversion in prices after orders•8分钟
Prices and bid-ask spread in the presence of order processing costs•8分钟
Prices and bid-ask spread with inventory holding costs•20分钟
The full picture•1分钟
Key takeaways•10分钟
3个作业•总计37分钟
Prices and bid-ask spread in the presence of order processing costs•2分钟
Prices and bid-ask spread with inventory holding costs•5分钟
Price Dynamics and Liquidity part 2•30分钟
Trade side and Market Depth
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This week will explain how orders of different sizes have a different impact on prices and how price impact is an inverse measure of market depth. You’ll learn that depth is affected by order flow informativeness, market risk absorption capacity and competition between liquidity suppliers.
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17个视频4篇阅读材料3个作业
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17个视频•总计68分钟
Societé Generale, January 2008•3分钟
Depth vs. liquidity•3分钟
Assumptions of the Kyle model•5分钟
Steps in solving the model•1分钟
First step: market makers' inference•4分钟
Second step: imposing market makers' zero-profit condition•5分钟
Third step: choice of the trade size by the informed investor•3分钟
Fourth step: Nash equilibrium•6分钟
Equilibrium market depth and expected profits of the insider•7分钟
Introducing imperfect competition in the Kyle model•4分钟
Market depth with imperfect competition in the Kyle model•4分钟
Optimization by competitive and risk-averse market makers•7分钟
Equilibrium price with competitive and risk-averse market makers•2分钟
Depth with competitive and risk-averse market makers•4分钟
Introducing imperfect competition in the model•4分钟
Depth with imperfectly competitive and risk-averse market makers•2分钟
Risk sharing with perfectly and imperfectly competitive market makers•3分钟
4篇阅读材料•总计38分钟
Impact of trade size on prices•2分钟
Market depth in call markets with asymmetric information•25分钟
Market depth in call markets with risk averse dealers•10分钟
Key takeaways•1分钟
3个作业•总计51分钟
Market depth in call markets with asymmetric information•6分钟
Risk sharing with perfectly and imperfectly competitive market makers•15分钟
Trade side and Market Depth•30分钟
Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading
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By the end of this week, you will learn the fundamentals of algorithmic and high-frequency trading, their impact on market quality, and explore policies to mitigate trading speed effects.
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15个视频5篇阅读材料2个作业
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15个视频•总计58分钟
Definition of algorithmic and high-frequency trading•5分钟
Types of algo trading strategies•4分钟
Potential effects on market liquidity•8分钟
Empirical evidence regarding the effects on market liquidity•2分钟
Effects on price discovery•2分钟
Effects on market manipulation•4分钟
Modelling investment in speed as an arms race•4分钟
Determination of quotes and of the competitive bid-ask spread•6分钟
Speculators' expected profits and choice of speed•8分钟
Nash equilibrium where all speculators are fast•4分钟
Inefficiency of the investment in speed•2分钟
Investment in speed by market makers•1分钟
Effect of high-frequency trading on operational risk•1分钟
Effects of high-frequency trading on market liquidity and stability•4分钟
Slowing down trading•4分钟
5篇阅读材料•总计60分钟
What are algorithmic and high frequency trading?•4分钟
Effects of algorithmic and high frequency trading on market quality•15分钟
Investment in trading speed as an arms race•20分钟
Destabilizing effects of speed and regulatory interventions•20分钟
Key takeaways•1分钟
2个作业•总计33分钟
Speculators' expected profits and choice of speed•3分钟
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