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on Market Microstructure |
| By: | Eichfelder, Sebastian; Lau, Mona |
| Abstract: | We analyze the impact of the French 2012 financial transaction tax (FTT) on trading volumes, stock prices, stock liquidity and volatility. We extend the empirical research by the identification of FTT announcement and short-run treatment effects, which may distort difference-in-differences estimates. In addition, we account not only for the intraday volatility but also for long-term volatility measures. While we find strong evidence for a positive FTT announcement effect on trading volumes, there is almost no statistically significant evidence for a long-run treatment effect. Thus, existing evidence on a strong reduction of trading volumes resulting from the French FTT might be biased by FTT announcement effects. We also find an increase of intraday volatilities in the announcement period and a significant reduction of weekly and monthly volatilities in the treatment period. Therefore, our findings support theoretical considerations suggesting a stabilizing impact of FTTs on financial markets. While some of our results suggest a reduction of stock prices in the announcement period, our results on bid-ask spreads and daily returns are not fully conclusive. |
| Keywords: | financial transaction taxes,market quality,volatility,trading volume,liquidity,price discovery,announcement effects,short-run treatment effects |
| JEL: | G02 G12 H24 M41 |
| Date: | 2016 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:arqudp:211&r=mst |
| By: | Francesca Biagini; Andrea Mazzon; Thilo Meyer-Brandis |
| Abstract: | We consider a constructive model for asset price bubbles, where the market price $W$ is endogenously determined by the trading activity on the market and the fundamental price $W^F$ is exogenously given, as in the work of Jarrow, Protter and Roch (2012). To justify $W^F$ from a fundamental point of view, we embed this constructive approach in the martingale theory of bubbles, see Jarrow, Protter and Shimbo (2010) and Biagini, F\"ollmer and Nedelcu (2014), by showing the existence of a flow of equivalent martingale measures for $W$, under which $W^F$ equals the expectation of the discounted future cash flow. As an application, we study bubble formation and evolution in a financial network. |
| Date: | 2016–11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:1611.01440&r=mst |