Spoilt for choice: order routing decisions in fragmented equity markets

  • The equity trading landscape all over the world has changed dramatically in recent years. We have witnessed the advent of new trading venues and significant changes in the market shares of existing ones. We use an extensive panel dataset from the European equity markets to analyze the market shares of five categories of lit and dark trading mechanisms. Market design features, such as minimum tick size, immediacy and anonymity; market conditions, such as liquidity and volatility; and the informational environment have distinct implications for order routing decisions and trading venues' resulting market shares. Furthermore, these implications differ distinctly for small and large trades, probably because traders jointly optimize their trade size and venue choice. Our results both confirm and go beyond current theoretical predictions on trading in fragmented markets.

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Author:Peter GomberORCiDGND, Satchit Sagade, Erik TheissenORCiDGND, Moritz Christian Weber, Christian Westheide
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-416950
URL:https://ssrn.com/abstract=2839285
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2839285
Parent Title (English):SAFE working paper series ; No. 143
Series (Serial Number):SAFE working paper (143)
Publisher:SAFE
Place of publication:Frankfurt am Main
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Year of Completion:2016
Year of first Publication:2016
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2016/10/20
Tag:Anonymity; Dark Trading; Fragmentation; Immediacy
Page Number:41
Note:
First draft: October 2014. This draft: August 2016
HeBIS-PPN:390298360
Institutes:Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / House of Finance (HoF)
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe (SAFE)
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht