Price Discovery In The Pre-Opening Period. Theory And Evidence From The Madrid Stock Exchange
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Some stock exchanges, such as the Spanish Stock Exchange and Euronext (Paris), allow traders to place orders in a ‘pre-opening’ period. Orders placed in this period are used to determine the opening price, and can be cancelled at any moment and at no cost by the traders. We consider a model in which noise traders can appear in the market before or after the opening, and a strategic informed trader decides her order strategy at the pre-opening and at the opening period. We characterize the equilibrium of such a model, showing that at the pre-opening there is a non-monotonic relation between the aggregate quantity ordered and prices. Thus, the equilibrium at the pre-opening stage is determined in a way which is fundamentally different from the equilibrium in the open market. We proceed to study the implications of the existence of a pre-opening period on information revelation and on the determination of the opening price. We present evidence from the Spanish Stock Exchange that seem to support the theoretical predictions, showing a clear different in behaviour between the market behaviour before and after the opening of the market.Download Info
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- Brusco, Sandro & Manzano, Carolina & Tapia, Mikel, 2003. "Price Discovery in the Pre-Opening Period. Theory and Evidence from the Madrid Stock Exchange," Open Access publications from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid info:hdl:10016/7332, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
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