Market microstructure refers to the intricate details and framework that shape how financial markets operate. It focuses on understanding the mechanics of trading, including factors like order placement, execution, and price formation. In simple terms, it examines how trades are made and how the market functions at a granular level.
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There is a growing academic literature
on market microstructure; one thing it addresses is measurement of the total costs of trading.
I first came across this concept applied in financial markets in Larry Harris» Trading and Exchanges:
Market Microstructure for Practitioners, and Henri Amiel's quote refreshed it.
They also use market liquidity and volatility as a proxy for
market microstructure issues and inflation, current account, growth rate in money supply, industrial production and the unemployment rate for macroeconomic factors.
In a paper titled «Rational or Irrational: A Comprehensive Study of Stock Market Crashes,» the authors find that behavioural factors and
other market microstructure issues are more significant than macroeconomic factors in explaining stock market crashes.
Wall Street veteran and cryptocurrency investor Jill Carlson told
IBT market microstructures influence bitcoin's price volatility.
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Dr. Piwowar was an assistant professor of finance at Iowa State University where he focused his research
on market microstructure and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in corporate finance and investments.
His research interest include IPOs, private equity, and
market microstructure.
For example, high frequency market makers use all
the market microstructure to take decisions of how many stocks put in each side.