Current research shows that fragmentation and fast trading increase liquidity and price efficiency. However, the speed makes the markets opaque, and long-term investors feel exploited by the fast traders. Furthermore, many investors fear that the complexity of modern financial markets have made them less reliable and less sustainable. Michal Dzielinski, Björn Hagströmer and Lars Nordén (all at SBS) study how the trading costs of slow investors have developed in the presence of fast trading and fragmented markets during 2010-2014.
On the fore-front of the technological development in financial markets are the high-frequency traders (HFTs). Except for the mere speed of operation, are these traders any different from traditional short-term investors? Together with Matthew Baron (Cornell University), Jonathan Brogaard (Washington University), and Andrei Kirilenko (Imperial College), Björn Hagströmer (SBS) studies the industrial organization of HFTs, the nature of competition, and the sources of trading revenues. Their findings were recently published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
Publications
Baron, M., J. Brogaard, B. Hagströmer, A. Kirilenko (2019). Risk and Return in High-Frequency Trading. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 54(3), 993-1024. Link to publication
Working papers
Brogaard, J., M. Dzielinski, B. Hagströmer, and L. L. Nordén. (2019). Retail Traders in Complex Markets.
Researchers
Jonathan Brogaard (affiliated with SBS), Michal Dzielinski, Björn Hagströmer, and Lars Nordén
