arXiv · arXiv · 2026
An order-book market whose liquidity provision is anchored to a fundamental value carries a restoring force: the price mean-reverts to value and the book refills after a shock. We show this restoring force is a robust intrinsic stabiliser and identify it causally-dialling the anchor down removes the mean-reversion, and a leverage-driven fire-sale then self-sustains. Separately, we ask whether a stressed market transm…
Jan Novotny
arXiv · arXiv · 2020
Before the 2008 financial crisis, most research in financial mathematics focused on pricing options without considering the effects of counterparties' defaults, illiquidity problems, and the role of the sale and repurchase agreement (Repo) market. Recently, models were proposed to address this by computing a total valuation adjustment (XVA) of derivatives; however without considering a potential crisis in the market.…
Weijie Pang, Stephan Sturm
OpenAlex · The Journal of Finance · 2014 · cites 325
ABSTRACT The repo market has been viewed as a potential source of financial instability since the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis, based in part on findings that margins increased sharply in a segment of this market. This paper provides evidence suggesting that there was no system‐wide run on repo. Using confidential data on tri‐party repo, a major segment of this market, we show that, the level of margins and the amou…
Adam Copeland, Antoine Martin, Michael Walker
OpenAlex · Review of Financial Studies · 2008 · cites 4955
We provide a model that links an asset's market liquidity (i.e., the ease with which it is traded) and traders' funding liquidity (i.e., the ease with which they can obtain funding). Traders provide market liquidity, and their ability to do so depends on their availability of funding. Conversely, traders' funding, i.e., their capital and margin requirements, depends on the assets' market liquidity. We show that, unde…
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Lasse Heje Pedersen
OpenAlex · Journal of Business and Economic Statistics · 2006 · cites 1224
We study market microstructure noise in high-frequency data and analyze its implications for the realized variance (RV) under a general specification for the noise. We show that kernel-based estimators can unearth important characteristics of market microstructure noise and that a simple kernel-based estimator dominates the RV for the estimation of integrated variance (IV). An empirical analysis of the Dow Jones Indu…
Peter Reinhard Hansen, Asger Lunde
OpenAlex · The Journal of Finance · 2004 · cites 391
ABSTRACT We examine the role of price discovery in the U.S. Treasury market through the empirical relationship between orderflow, liquidity, and the yield curve. We find that orderflow imbalances (excess buying or selling pressure) account for up to 26% of the day‐to‐day variation in yields on days without major macroeconomic announcements. The effect of orderflow on yields is permanent and strongest when liquidity i…
Michael W. Brandt, Kenneth A. Kavajecz
OpenAlex · European Finance Review · 2005 · cites 189
Abstract This paper examines the price differences between very liquid on-the-run U.S. Treasury securities and less liquid off-the-run securities over the on/off cycle. Comparing pairs of securities in time-series regressions allows us to disregard any fixed cross-sectional differences between securities. Also, since the liquidity of Treasury notes varies predictably over time, we can distinguish between current and …
David Goldreich, Bernd Hanke, Purnendu Nath
OpenAlex · Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis · 2010 · cites 174
Abstract In this paper, we identify jumps in U.S. Treasury-bond (T-bond) prices and investigate what causes such unexpected large price changes. In particular, we examine the relative importance of macroeconomic news announcements versus variation in market liquidity in explaining the observed jumps in the U.S. Treasury market. We show that while jumps occur mostly at prescheduled macroeconomic announcement times, an…
George J. Jiang, Ingrid Lo, Adrien Verdelhan
OpenAlex · Econstor (Econstor) · 2001 · cites 125
This paper examines a comprehensive set of liquidity measures for the U.S. Treasury market. The measures are analyzed relative to one another, across securities, and over time. I find highly significant price impact coefficients, such that a simple model that explains price changes with net order flow produces an R² statistic above 30 percent for the two-year note. The price impact coefficients are highly correlated …
Michael J. Fleming
OpenAlex · European Finance Review · 2014 · cites 64
Abstract Following the “flash crash” on May 6, 2010, warning signals for impending market stress have been in high demand, yet only the VPIN metric of Easley, López de Prado, and O’Hara (ELO) has claimed success. In addition, ELO find the metric useful in predicting short-term volatility. VPIN involves decomposing volume into active buys and sells. We utilize quotes and trade data to construct an accurate trade class…
Torben G. Andersen, Oleg Bondarenko
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2025
Liquidity withdrawal is a critical indicator of market fragility. In this project, I test a framework for forecasting liquidity withdrawal at the individual-stock level, ranging from less liquid stocks to highly liquid large-cap tickers, and evaluate the relative performance of competing model classes in predicting short-horizon order book stress. We introduce the Liquidity Withdrawal Index (LWI) -- defined as the ra…
Haochuan, Wang
OpenAlex · The Journal of Finance · 1999 · cites 728
The arrival of public information in the U.S. Treasury market sets off a two‐stage adjustment process for prices, trading volume, and bid‐ask spreads. In a brief first stage, the release of a major macroeconomic announcement induces a sharp and nearly instantaneous price change with a reduction in trading volume, demonstrating that price reactions to public information do not require trading. The spread widens dramat…
Michael J. Fleming, Eli M. Remolona
arXiv · arXiv · 2026
Prediction markets are attracting growing attention as trading volumes rise and their practical relevance increases. To ensure efficient price discovery, liquidity provision becomes ever more important. Due to the binary settlement structure in prediction markets, optimal market making leads to an optimization problem that is fundamentally different from the ones studied in classical settings. In this paper, we devel…
Dominik Feil, Max Nendel
arXiv · arXiv · 2026
Automated market makers (AMMs) for prediction markets descend from market scoring rules, where a mechanism operator subsidizes a market to aggregate beliefs about uncertain events. The existing literature has focused on bounding the total worst-case loss to the subsidizer, but has not addressed how that loss is distributed across price states or over time. We use the framework of loss-versus-rebalancing (LVR) to stud…
Ciamac C. Moallemi, Dan Robinson, Brian Zhu
arXiv · arXiv · 2026
Financial markets such as bond, derivatives, and repo markets form networks of interdependent obligations. Existing multilateral netting methods typically trade off the extent of netting against preservation of counterparty exposure: central clearing reallocates exposure to a central counterparty, while trade compression may alter bilateral counterparty relationships. TradeMech is a mechanism for markets in which one…
Daniel Aronoff, Robert M. Townsend, Madars Virza
arXiv · arXiv · 2017
We discuss the binary nature of funding impact in derivative valuation. Under some conditions, funding is either a cost or a benefit, i.e., one of the lending/borrowing rates does not play a role in pricing derivatives. When derivatives are priced, considering different lending/borrowing rates leads to semi-linear BSDEs and PDEs, and thus it is necessary to solve the equations numerically. However, once it can be gua…
Junbeom Lee, Chao Zhou
OpenAlex · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2015 · cites 893
Abstract The high-frequency trading arms race is a symptom of flawed market design. Instead of the continuous limit order book market design that is currently predominant, we argue that financial exchanges should use frequent batch auctions: uniform price double auctions conducted, for example, every tenth of a second. That is, time should be treated as discrete instead of continuous, and orders should be processed i…
Eric Budish, Peter Cramton, John J. Shim
OpenAlex · Quantitative Finance · 2010 · cites 340
We study model-driven statistical arbitrage in U.S. equities. The trading signals are generated in two ways: using Principal Component Analysis and using sector ETFs. In both cases, we consider the residuals, or idio-syncratic components of stock returns, and model them as mean-reverting processes. This leads naturally to “contrarian ” trading signals. The main contribution of the paper is the construction, back-test…
Marco Avellaneda, Jeong-Hyun Lee