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Liquidity and market makers: a pseudo-experimental analysis with ultrahigh frequency data

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An analysis is given of the effect of market makers on liquidity using a transaction-level database. For this purpose, the focus is on a financial market where a change in regulations created explicitly the category of market maker in 1997 and that date is used to construct a pseudo-experiment. In contrast with other studies that use ultrahigh frequency data, the days to be analysed are selected using a statistical procedure to match observations before and after the change in regulation. The propensity score is used to perform the matching. After choosing the days, an estimate of an ordered probit model is made to explain the intraday behaviour of price changes. The coefficient estimates from the ordered probit model are used to calculate a measure of liquidity based on the steepness of the response function of price changes to volume. The results show that liquidity, measured in this way, has not been affected by the introduction of the market makers.

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  • Jose Montalvo, 2003. "Liquidity and market makers: a pseudo-experimental analysis with ultrahigh frequency data," The European Journal of Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(4), pages 358-378.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurjfi:v:9:y:2003:i:4:p:358-378
    DOI: 10.1080/1351847021000025795
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