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The implications of high-frequency trading on market efficiency and price discovery

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  • Viktor Manahov
  • Robert Hudson

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This study investigates the implications of high-frequency trading (HFT) on market efficiency and price discovery by using state-space models and real-life one-minute high-frequency data of the six most traded currency pairs worldwide - USD/EUR, USD/JPY, USD/GBP, USD/AUD, USD/CHF and USD/CAD. We found significant evidence that HFT enhances market efficiency and has a beneficial role in price discovery by trading in the direction of the permanent component of the state-space model and in the opposite direction of its transitory component.

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  • Viktor Manahov & Robert Hudson, 2014. "The implications of high-frequency trading on market efficiency and price discovery," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(16), pages 1148-1151, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:21:y:2014:i:16:p:1148-1151
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2014.914135
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