TY - UNPD A1 - Beltran-Lopez, Hélena A1 - Grammig, Joachim G. A1 - Menkveld, Albert J. T1 - Limit order books and trade informativeness T2 - Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 2011,09 N2 - In the microstructure literature, information asymmetry is an important determinant of market liquidity. The classic setting is that uninformed dedicated liquidity suppliers charge price concessions when incoming market orders are likely to be informationally motivated. In limit order book markets, however, this relationship is less clear, as market participants can switch roles, and freely choose to immediately demand or patiently supply liquidity by submitting either market or limit orders. We study the importance of information asymmetry in limit order books based on a recent sample of thirty German DAX stocks. We find that Hasbrouck’s (1991) measure of trade informativeness Granger-causes book liquidity, in particular that required to fill large market orders. Picking-off risk due to public news induced volatility is more important for top-of-the book liquidity supply. In our multivariate analysis we control for volatility, trading volume, trading intensity and order imbalance to isolate the effect of trade informativeness on book liquidity. JEL Classification: G14 Keywords: Price Impact of Trades , Trading Intensity , Dynamic Duration Models, Spread Decomposition Models , Adverse Selection Risk T3 - CFS working paper series - 2011, 09 KW - Price Impact of Trades KW - Trading Intensity KW - Dynamic Duration Models KW - Spread Decomposition Models KW - Adverse Selection Risk KW - Orderbuch Y1 - 2011 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/21084 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-92979 IS - Version January 30, 2011 ER -