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      The Impacts of Automation and High Frequency Trading on Market Quality

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      Annual Review of Financial Economics
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          Abstract

          In recent decades, US equity markets have changed from predominantly manual markets with limited competition to highly automated and competitive markets. These changes occurred earlier for NASDAQ stocks (primarily between 1994 and 2004) and later for NYSE-listed stocks (mostly following Reg NMS and the 2006 introduction of the NYSE hybrid market). This paper surveys the evidence of how these changes impacted market quality and shows that overall market quality has improved significantly, including bid-ask spreads, liquidity, and transitory price impacts (measured by short-term variance ratios). The greater improvement in market quality for NYSE-listed stocks relative to NASDAQ stocks beginning in 2006 suggests causal links between the staggered market structure changes and market quality. Using proprietary data sets, provided by two exchanges, that identify the activity of high frequency trading firms, studies show these firms contributed directly to narrowing bid-ask spreads, increasing liquidity, and reducing intraday transitory pricing errors and intraday volatility.

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                Journal
                Annual Review of Financial Economics
                Annu. Rev. Financ. Econ.
                Annual Reviews
                1941-1367
                1941-1375
                October 2012
                October 2012
                : 4
                : 1
                : 59-98
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
                [2 ]RGM Advisors, LLC, Austin, Texas 78701; email:
                Article
                10.1146/annurev-financial-110311-101744
                2ff86de3-a35c-494e-a4d1-0597b5d2cbcf
                © 2012
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                Engineering,Biomedical engineering,Computer engineering - Hardware,Electrical engineering,Mechanical engineering

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