Financial Market Microstructure

Roland Mestel (University of Graz, principal investigator)

Viktoria Steffen (University of Graz, PhD student, project member)

Erik Theissen (University of Graz, University of Mannheim, project member)

Corinna Uhlenkamp (University of Graz,PhD student, project member)

Overview

Funding source: Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank (OeNB), project number 17789

Funding amount: € 105,000

Duration: 03/2019-02/2022

Agenda

This project studies the way securities are actually traded on financial markets with a special focus on market liquidity and efficiency. The main research areas include: (i) An in-depth analysis of the liquidity of the Austrian stock market, based on “Finance Research Graz Data Services” (FiRe Graz DS),(ii) Algorithmic and high-frequency trading, (iii) Market reactions to news.