G14 - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies

• Order Aggressiveness and Quantity: How Are They Determined in a Limit Order Market?

  Staff Working Paper 2007-23 Ingrid Lo, Stephen Sapp

  Dealers trading in a limit order market must choose both the order aggressiveness and the quantity for their orders. We empirically investigate how dealers jointly make these decisions in the foreign exchange market using a unique simultaneous equations model.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Exchange rates, Financial markets JEL Code(s): G, G1, G14

• Multivariate Realized Stock Market Volatility

  Staff Working Paper 2007-20 Gregory Bauer, Keith Vorkink

  We present a new matrix-logarithm model of the realized covariance matrix of stock returns. The model uses latent factors which are functions of both lagged volatility and returns.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Financial markets JEL Code(s): C, C3, C32, C5, C53, G, G1, G14