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Continuous-time Modeling of Bid-Ask Spread and Price Dynamics in Limit Order Books

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Authors Jose Blanchet, Xinyun Chen
Published 2013-10-03
Source arXiv Quantitative Finance History
Identifiers arxiv:1310.1103
URL Open original source

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Why it matters

The study derives a joint continuous-time model of mid-price and bid-ask spread from multiscale limit-order-book dynamics, aiming to retain key price and liquidity behavior with a reduced set of book parameters. (abstract:S1, abstract:S2, abstract:S3)

Main author claims

  • The authors model the limit order book as a multiclass queueing system and analyze an asymptotic regime motivated by empirical stylized facts. (abstract:S2, abstract:S3)
  • The authors claim that the limiting process has reflecting behavior and state-dependent jumps and can explain selected statistical links among order-book volume tails, returns, and the long-run spread distribution. (abstract:S4, abstract:S5)

Data, method, or discussion scope

The abstract covers the queueing representation, multiscale asymptotic derivation, dimensional-reduction claim, and spread/return features the model seeks to explain; it does not present empirical estimation results. (abstract:S1, abstract:S2, abstract:S3, abstract:S4, abstract:S5)

Main limitations

The conclusions depend on the stated asymptotic regime, while the material gives no dataset, parameter estimates, fit errors, or out-of-sample validation, leaving finite-sample applicability unresolved. (abstract:S2, abstract:S3, abstract:S5)

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