Slow-Moving Capital and Execution Costs: Evidence from a Major Trading Glitch

62 Pages Posted: 3 Jun 2015 Last revised: 29 Jan 2020

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Vincent Bogousslavsky

Boston College - Department of Finance

Pierre Collin-Dufresne

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Swiss Finance Institute; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Mehmet Saglam

University of Cincinnati - Department of Finance - Real Estate

Date Written: January 24, 2020

Abstract

We investigate the impact of an exogenous trading glitch at a high-frequency market-making firm on standard measures of stock liquidity (spreads, price impact, turnover, and depth) and institutional trading costs (implementation shortfall and VWAP slippage). Stocks in which the firm accumulates large long (short) positions increase (decrease) by about 4% during the glitch and become substantially more illiquid. It takes one day for prices and spread-based liquidity measures to revert. Institutional trading costs, however, remain significantly higher for more than one week. Both liquidity measures are also weakly correlated outside the glitch period, suggesting they capture different aspects of liquidity.

Keywords: Liquidity, Algorithmic Trading, Institutional Trading Costs, Slow-Moving Capital, Market Making

JEL Classification: G10

Suggested Citation

Bogousslavsky, Vincent and Collin-Dufresne, Pierre and Saglam, Mehmet, Slow-Moving Capital and Execution Costs: Evidence from a Major Trading Glitch (January 24, 2020). Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 18-41, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2613667 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2613667

Vincent Bogousslavsky

Boston College - Department of Finance ( email )

Carroll School of Management
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Pierre Collin-Dufresne

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ( email )

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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Mehmet Saglam (Contact Author)

University of Cincinnati - Department of Finance - Real Estate ( email )

Carl H. Lindner College of Business
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United States
(513) 556-9108 (Phone)

HOME PAGE: http://homepages.uc.edu/~saglammt/

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