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When is cross impact relevant?

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  • Victor Le Coz
  • Iacopo Mastromatteo
  • Damien Challet
  • Michael Benzaquen

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Trading pressure from one asset can move the price of another, a phenomenon referred to as cross impact. Using tick-by-tick data spanning 5 years for 500 assets listed in the United States, we identify the features that make cross-impact relevant to explain the variance of price returns. We show that price formation occurs endogenously within highly liquid assets. Then, trades in these assets influence the prices of less liquid correlated products, with an impact velocity constrained by their minimum trading frequency. We investigate the implications of such multidimensional price formation mechanism on interest rate markets. We find that the 10-year bond future serves as the primary liquidity reservoir, influencing the prices of cash bonds and futures contracts within the interest rate curve. Such behaviour challenges the validity of the theory in Financial Economics that regards long-term rates as agents anticipations of future short term rates.

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  • Victor Le Coz & Iacopo Mastromatteo & Damien Challet & Michael Benzaquen, 2024. "When is cross impact relevant?," Quantitative Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 265-279, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:quantf:v:24:y:2024:i:2:p:265-279
    DOI: 10.1080/14697688.2024.2302827
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    1. Chapkovski, Philipp & Cordoni, Francesco & Giannetti, Caterina & Lillo, Fabrizio, 2025. "Cross−impact and price bubbles in hybrid financial markets," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 118(C).
    2. Nikolay Doskov & Thorsten Hens & Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé, 2026. "Complementarity and substitutability of investment strategies," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 36(1), pages 1-25, April.
    3. Cedric Schuhmann & Benjamin Kohler & Anton J. Heckens & Thomas Guhr, 2025. "A New Traders' Game? -- Empirical Analysis of Response Functions in a Historical Perspective," Papers 2503.01629, arXiv.org, revised Oct 2025.
    4. Schuhmann, Cedric & Köhler, Benjamin & Heckens, Anton J. & Guhr, Thomas, 2025. "A new traders’ game? — Empirical analysis of response functions in a historical perspective," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 679(C).

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