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Market Microstructure Theory by Maureen O'Hara
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    • Product code: 16303
    • ISBN: 0631207619, ISBN13: 9780631207610, 304 pages, paperback
      Published by Blackwell Publishers on 1997 , New edition
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    Description of Market Microstructure Theory

    Written by one of the leading authorities in market microstructure research, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the theoretical work in this important area of finance.After an introduction to the general issues and problems in market microstructure, the book examines the main theoretical models developed to address inventory-based issues. There is then an extensive examination and discussion of the information-based models, with particular attention paid to the linkage with rational expectations model and learning models. The concluding chapters are concerned with price dynamics and with applications of the various models to specific microstructure problems including: Liquidity. Multi-market trading. Market structure. Market Design Market Microstructure Theory includes extensive appendices developing Bayesian learning and the rational expectations framework.

    Contents of Market Microstructure Theory

    1: Markets and Market Making
    Prices and Markets
    The Nature of Markets

    2: Inventory Models
    Order Arrival and Market Making
    The Dealer's Problem
    The Inter Temporal Role of Inventory
    Prices and Inventories in Competitive Markets
    Inventory Models and Market Maker Behaviour

    3: Information-Based Models
    Informed Traders and Uninformed Traders
    The Information Content of Trades
    The Glosten-Milgrom Model
    Trade Quantities and Price Behaviour
    Sequential Trade Models and Price Behaviour

    4: Strategic Trader Models
    The Strategic Behaviour of an Informed Traders
    Price Behaviour and Multiple Informed Traders
    Strategic Behaviour and the Trading Mechanism

    5: Strategic Trader Models 11
    Strategic Behaviour and Uninformed Traders
    Strategic Behaviour and Long-Lived Information
    Strategic Behaviour and Security Returns
    The robustness of Strategic Models

    6: Information and the Price Process
    Information and the sequence of prices
    The Volume Critique
    The Role of Time in Price Adjustment

    7: Market Viability and Stability
    Information and Market Viability
    Order Form and Price Behaviour
    Policy Issues in Market Structure

    8: Liquidity and the Relationship Between Markets
    The Nature of Liquidity
    Endogenous Liquidity and Market Performance
    Block Trades and Alternative Trading Mechanisms
    Information and Multi market Activity

    9: Issues in Market Performance
    Market Transparency
    Trader Anonymity
    How to Design a Market?


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