Research project Financial Market Microstructure (FMM)
The field of financial market microstructure studies how the interaction of investors and institutions generate markets with varying efficiency and liquidity depending on different rules and regulations. Through close collaboration with policy-makers and local finance industry, SBS has become a leading institution in this field.
Financial market structure is about how legislation, technology, and trading rules and traditions influence trading strategies and market quality, such as efficiency and liquidity. Efficiency and liquidity are often taken for granted in financial economic theory, but in reality they vary considerably, both over time and across assets (for example stocks, bonds, and derivatives).
Project description
Examples of research topics that faculty members and PhD students at SBS pursue within this field include:
- Market quality implications of how European equities markets (traditional stock exchanges, dark pools, and systematic internalisers) are organized and regulated.
- High-frequency trading and the introduction of speedbumps in trading.
- Price discovery in foreign exchange markets.
- Liquidity measurement in US equity markets.
- Hedging, liquidity and price discovery in the futures markets.
Financial market structure researchers at SBS interact with policy-makers both locally and at the EU level (Finansinspektionen and ESMA, respectively) and collaborates with the Swedish Securities Markets Association to promote the discussion of market structure issues in academia and in the industry. Furthermore, SBS is host for two webinar series and an annual academic conference in this field (see links).
The research activity in this field is also reflected in the teaching at SBS. All masters students in Finance take a course in Financial Market Structure, and every second year SBS hosts the Summer School on Market Microstructure for PhD students (see links).
Project members
Project managers
Björn Hagströmer
Professor
Members
Michal Dzielinski
Assistant Professor
Lu Liu
Assistant Professor
Lars Nordén
Professor
Iñaki Rodriguez Longarela
Professor
Caihong Xu
Assistant Professor
Alexander Hübbert
PhD student
Ai Jun Hou
Professor
Abalfazl Zareei
Guest researcher
Jonathan Brogaard
Affilierad professor
