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"Market making" behaviour in an order book model and its impact on the bid-ask spread

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Authors Ioane Muni Toke
Published 2010-03-19
Source arXiv Quantitative Finance History
Identifiers arxiv:1003.3796
URL Open original source

Editorial synthesis

Why it matters

The study adds mutually exciting order arrivals to an order-book simulator to examine whether more realistic order timing improves simulated bid-ask spread behavior. (abstract:S3, abstract:S4, abstract:S5)

Main author claims

  • The authors propose adding asymmetrically mutually exciting Hawkes arrival processes for limit and market orders to a basic zero-intelligence order-book simulator. (abstract:S2, abstract:S3)
  • The authors report that the specification draws on order-interval observations from equity, bond-futures, and index-futures markets and produces more realistic simulated bid-ask spreads. (abstract:S4, abstract:S5)

Data, method, or discussion scope

The abstract covers the Hawkes order-arrival specification, empirical motivation from several markets, and a qualitative claim about simulated-spread realism; the evidence concerns order-book simulation rather than trading performance. (abstract:S3, abstract:S4, abstract:S5)

Main limitations

The material states that spread simulation becomes more realistic but provides no fit metric, sample period, or out-of-sample forecast result, so the magnitude and robustness of the improvement cannot be assessed from the abstract. (abstract:S4, abstract:S5)

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