The Interactions between Price Discovery, Liquidity and Algorithmic Trading for US-Canadian Cross-Listed Shares

52 Pages Posted: 3 Dec 2015 Last revised: 15 Feb 2017

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Bart Frijns

Open University of the Netherlands - School of Management

Ivan Indriawan

University of Adelaide

Alireza Tourani-Rad

Auckland University of Technology - Faculty of Business & Law

Date Written: February 1, 2017

Abstract

We analyze price discovery dynamics for Canadian companies cross-listed on the NYSE from January 2004 to January 2011. We employ a structural vector autoregression to assess the interactions between price discovery, liquidity and algorithmic trading activity. We observe that over time, the U.S. market is gaining dominance in terms of price discovery. Improvements in liquidity increase a market's contribution to price discovery, and vice versa. We find that algorithmic trading activity is negatively related to price discovery, indicating negative externalities of high-frequency trading. These results are robust to regulatory changes in the U.S. and fragmentation in the Canadian financial markets.

Keywords: Market Microstructure, Price Discovery, Cross-Listings

JEL Classification: C32, G15

Suggested Citation

Frijns, Bart and Indriawan, Ivan and Tourani-Rad, Alireza, The Interactions between Price Discovery, Liquidity and Algorithmic Trading for US-Canadian Cross-Listed Shares (February 1, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2697829 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2697829

Bart Frijns

Open University of the Netherlands - School of Management ( email )

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Ivan Indriawan (Contact Author)

University of Adelaide ( email )

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Australia

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Alireza Tourani-Rad

Auckland University of Technology - Faculty of Business & Law ( email )

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Private Bag 92006
Auckland Central 1020, Auckland 1010
New Zealand

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