Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/56739 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2011-056
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Abstract: 
In this paper, we provide new empirical evidence on order submission activity and price impacts of limit orders at NASDAQ. Employing NASDAQ TotalView-ITCH data, we find that market participants dominantly submit limit orders with sizes equal to a round lot. Most limit orders are canceled almost immediately after submission if not getting executed. Moreover, only very few market orders walk through the book, i.e., directly move the best ask or bid quote. Estimates of impulse-response functions on the basis of a cointegrated VAR model for quotes and market depth allow us to quantify the market impact of incoming limit orders. We propose a method to predict the optimal size of a limit order conditional on its position in the book and a given fixed level of expected market impact.
Subjects: 
price impact
limit order
impulse response function
cointegration
optimal order size
JEL: 
G14
C32
G17
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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