Need for speed? Exchange latency and liquidity

Albert J. Menkveld; Marius A. Zoican

doi:10.1093/rfs/hhx006

Need for speed? Exchange latency and liquidity

Albert J. Menkveld^*, Marius A. Zoican

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Abstract

A faster exchange does not necessarily improve liquidity. On the one hand, speed enables a high-frequency market maker (HFM) to update quotes faster on incoming news. This reduces payoff risk and thus lowers the competitive bid-ask spread. On the other hand, HFM price quotes are more likely to meet speculative high-frequency bandits, and thus are less likely to meet liquidity traders. This raises the spread. The net effect of exchange speed depends on a security's news-to-liquidity-trader ratio.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1188-1228
Number of pages	41
Journal	The Review of Financial Studies
Volume	30
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhx006
Publication status	Published - 2017

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