Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/41351 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CFR working paper No. 09-05
Publisher: 
University of Cologne, Centre for Financial Research (CFR), Cologne
Abstract: 
This paper uses data from one of the most important European stock markets and shows that, in line with predictions from theoretical market microstructure, a small number of latent factors captures most of the variation in stock specific order books. We show that these order book commonalities are much stronger than liquidity commonality across stocks. The result that bid and ask side as well as the visible and hidden parts of the order book exhibit quite specific dynamics is interpreted as evidence that open order book markets attract a heterogeneous trader population in terms of asset valuations and impatience. Quantifying the informational content of the extracted factors with respect to the evolution of the asset price we find that the factor information shares are highest (about ten percent) for less frequently traded stocks. We also show that the informational content of hidden orders is limited.
Subjects: 
limit order book
commonalities
liquidity
market microstructure
JEL: 
G10
C32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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