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Market microstructure

How orders become prices: spreads, market makers, informed flow, HFT, and why execution costs matter.

CitationPaperAccessDifficultyScore
Kirilenko et al. (2017)The Flash Crash: High-Frequency Trading in an Electronic Market
Journal of Finance
FreeModerate0
O'Hara (2015)High Frequency Market Microstructure
Journal of Financial Economics
PaywalledModerate0
Budish et al. (2015)The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response
Quarterly Journal of Economics
FreeModerate0
Brogaard et al. (2014)High-Frequency Trading and Price Discovery
Review of Financial Studies
FreeModerate0
Easley et al. (2012)Flow Toxicity and Liquidity in a High-frequency World
Review of Financial Studies
FreeTechnical0
Hendershott et al. (2011)Does Algorithmic Trading Improve Liquidity?
Journal of Finance
PaywalledModerate0
Amihud (2002)Illiquidity and Stock Returns: Cross-Section and Time-Series Effects
Journal of Financial Markets
PaywalledModerate0
Easley et al. (1996)Liquidity, Information, and Infrequently Traded Stocks
Journal of Finance
PaywalledTechnical0
Hasbrouck (1991)Measuring the Information Content of Stock Trades
Journal of Finance
PaywalledTechnical0
Kyle (1985)Continuous Auctions and Insider Trading
Econometrica
PaywalledTechnical0
Glosten & Milgrom (1985)Bid, Ask and Transaction Prices in a Specialist Market with Heterogeneously Informed Traders
Journal of Financial Economics
PaywalledTechnical0
Roll (1984)A Simple Implicit Measure of the Effective Bid-Ask Spread in an Efficient Market
Journal of Finance
PaywalledModerate0