Norges Bank/BI Conference

The Microstructure of Equity and Currency Markets

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Friday September 9

08:00 - 08:45 Registration and coffee
08:45 - 09:00 Welcoming remarks: Governor Svein Gjedrem, Norges Bank
09:00 - 10:20 Session 1: Liquidity (chair: Bernt Arne Ødegaard)
  Inter-temporal Trade Clustering and Two-Sided Markets (PDF 492 kB)
Asani Sarkar (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Robert Schwartz (Zicklin Business School) and Avner Wolf (Zicklin Business School) (Presentation, PPT 339 kB)
Discussant: Albert Menkveld (Discussion, PDF 69 kB)
  Detecting Liquidity Traders (PDF 290 kb)
Avner Kalay (Tel Aviv University and the University of Utah) and Avi Wohl (Tel Aviv University) (Presentation, PPT 291 kB))
Discussant: Loran Chollete (Discussion, PPT 37 kB)
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break
10:40 - 12:00 Session 2: Macro and FX order flow (chair: Geir Bjønnes)
  Short-Run Exchange-Rate Dynamics: Evidence, Theory, and Evidence (PDF 462 kB)
John Carlson (Purdue University) and Carol Osler (Brandeis International Business School) (Presentation, PPT 309 kB)
Discussant: Farooq Akram (Discussion, PDF 140 kB)
  Macroeconomic Order Flows: Explaining Equity and Exchange Rate (PDF 376 kB)
Peter Dunne (Queens University, Belfast), Harald Hau (INSEAD and CEPR) and Michael Moore (Queens University, Belfast) (Presentation, PPT 216 kB)
Discussant: Haakon Solheim (Discussion, PPT 42 kB)
12:00 - 13:15 Lunch
  Luncheon speech: "Merger and Hybrid Market at the NYSE" (PDF 328 kB)
by Terrence Hendershott (UC Berkeley)
13:15 - 14:15 Session 3: Volatility  (chair: Randi Næs)
  The Impact of Trades on Daily Volatility (PDF 251 kB)
Doron Avramov (University of Maryland), Tarun Chordia (Emory University) and Amit Goyal (Emory University) (Presentation, PDF 73 kB)
Discussant: Thierry Foucault (Discussion, PDF 94 kB)
14:15 - 14:30 Coffee break
14:30 - 15:50 Session 4: Trading and Price Discovery (Equity)  (chair: Randi Næs)
  Information Asymmetry and Asset Prices: Evidence from the China Foreign Share Discount (PDF 185 kB)
Kalok Chan (Hong Kong University), Albert Menkveld (Vrije Univeriteit, Amsterdam) and Zhishu Yang (Tsinghua University) (Presentation, PDF 227 kB)
Discussant: Avi Wohl (Discussion, PPT 46 kB)
  The Cost of Trading on Competing Parallel Markets: SETS vs. Dealers in London (PDF 2238 kB)
Alfonso Dufour (University of Reading) and Dorian Noel (University of Reading) (Presentation, PDF 475 kB)
Discussant: Carsten Tangaard (Discussion, PDF 118 kB)
15:50 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 17:35 Session 5: Trading and Price Discovery (FX) (chair: Dagfinn Rime)
  An Empirical Study of Liquidity and Information Effects of Order Flow on Exchange Rates (PDF 272 kB)
Francis Breedon (Imperial College) and Paolo Vitale (D'Annunzio University and CEPR) (Presentation PDF 167 kB)
Discussant: Richard Lyons (Discussion, PDF 83 kB)
  Customer Order Flow and Exchange Rate Movements: Is There Really Information Content (PDF 129 kB)
Ian Marsh (Cass Business School) and Ceire O'Rourke (Cass Business School) (Presentation, PPT 956 kB)
Discussant: Eric Girardin (Discussion, PPT 202 kB)
19:00 Conference dinner
  MS Olympia (Rådhusbrygge 1, see Overview map).

Saturday September 10

08:00 - 09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00 - 10:20 Session 6: Limit Order Trading (Equity) (chair: Thierry Foucalt)
  Hidden Limit Orders and Liquidity in Limit Order Markets (PDF 489 kB)
Sophie Moinas (HEC Business School) (Presentation, PDF 365 kB)
Discussant: Jeremy Large (Discussion, 76 kB)
  Information Acquisition in a Limit Order Market (PDF 328 kB)
Ronald Goettler (Carnegie Mellon University), Christine Parlour (Carnegie Mellon University) and Uday Rajan (University of Michigan) (Presentation, PDF 91 kB)
Discussant: Mark van Achter (Discussion, PPT 120 kB)
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 - 12:00 Session 7: Market Structure (chair: Johannes Skjeltorp)
  Population Risk on Financial Markets (PDF 269 kB)
Jeremy Large (University of Oxford) (Presentation, PPT 200 kB)
Discussant: Christine Parlour (Discussion, 25 kB)
  Paying for Market Quality (PDF 298 kB)
Amber Anand (Syracuse University), Carsten Tangaard (Aarhus Business School) and Daniel Weaver (Rutgers University) (Presentation, PPT 167 kB)
Discussant: James Angel (Discussion, PPT 53 kB)
12:00 - 13:15 Lunch
  Luncheon speech: "Will the next global economic crisis start in the currency markets?" (PPT 79 kB)
by Richard Olsen (Olsen and Associates)
13:15 - 14:15 Session 8: Exchange Rate Fundamentals (chair: Johannes Skjeltorp)
  Exchange Rate Fundamentals and Order Flow (PDF 519 kB)
Martin Evans (Georgetown University and NBER) and Richard Lyons (Haas School of Business, Berkeley) (Presentation, PDF 847 kB)
Discussant: Harald Hau (Discussion, PPT 111 kB)
14:15 - 14:30 Coffee break
14:30 - 16.30 Session 9: Electronic Trading in FX Markets (chair: Richard Lyons)
  Price Aggressiveness and Quantity: How are They Determined in a Limit Order Market? (PDF 198 kB)
Ingrid Lo (The Bank of Canada) and Stephen Sapp (University of Western Ontario) (Presentation, PPT 444 kB)
Discussant: Frank McGroarty (Discussion, PPT 76 kB)
  Informed Trading in Limit Order Markets: Evidence on Trinary Order Choice (PDF 348 kB)
Lukas Menkhoff (University of Hannover) and Maik Schmeling (University of Hannover) (Presentation, PPT 363 kB)
Discussant: Geir Bjønnes (Discussion, PPT 29 kB)
  Order Flow and Exchange Rate Dynamics in Electronic Brokerage System Data (PDF 744 kB)
David Berger (Board of Governors, Fed), Alain Chaboud (Board of Governors, Fed), Sergey Chernenko (Board of Governors, Fed), Edward Howorka (EBS), Raj Krishnasami Iyer (EBS), David Liu (EBS), and Jonathan Wright (Board of Governors, Fed) (Presentation, PDF 643 kB)
Discussant: Dagfinn Rime (Discussion, PDF 298 kB)
16:30 Closing remarks
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