David Easley

Cornell University - Department of Economics

H Scarborough Professor of Economics

414 Uris Hall

Ithaca, NY 14853-7601

United States

Cornell University - Department of Information Science

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Ithaca, NY 14853

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The Microstructure of the ‘Flash Crash’: Flow Toxicity, Liquidity Crashes and the Probability of Informed Trading

The Journal of Portfolio Management, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 118-128, Winter 2011
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 May 2019 Last Revised: 30 May 2019
David Easley, Marcos Lopez de Prado and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial Engineering and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Flash crash, liquidity, flow toxicity, market microstructure, VPIN

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Flow Toxicity and Liquidity in a High Frequency World

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 1457-1493, 2012.
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 23 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2012
David Easley, Marcos Lopez de Prado and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial Engineering and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Flash crash, liquidity, flow toxicity, volume imbalance, market microstructure, probability of informed trading, VPIN

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The Volume Clock: Insights into the High Frequency Paradigm

The Journal of Portfolio Management, (Fall, 2012)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 May 2019 Last Revised: 30 May 2019
David Easley, Marcos Lopez de Prado and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial Engineering and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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high frequency trading, volume clock, low frequency trading, market microstructure

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The Exchange of Flow Toxicity

The Journal of Trading, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 8-13, Spring 2011; https://doi.org/10.3905/jot.2011.6.2.008.
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 17 Jul 2019
David Easley, Marcos Lopez de Prado and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial Engineering and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Liquidity Provision, Flow Toxicity, Market Microstructure, VPIN

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Discerning Information from Trade Data

Journal of Financial Economics, 120(2), pp. 269-286. May 2016
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 23 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 16 May 2016
David Easley, Marcos Lopez de Prado and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial Engineering and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Trade Classification, Bulk Volume Classification, flow toxicity, volume imbalance, market microstructure

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Optimal Execution Horizon

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Optimal Execution Horizon

Mathematical Finance, 25(3), pp. 640-672. July 2015.
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 12 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2015
David Easley, Marcos Lopez de Prado and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial Engineering and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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liquidity, flow toxicity, broker, VWAP, market microstructure, adverse selection, probability of informed trading, VPIN, OEH

Optimal Execution Horizon

Mathematical Finance, Vol. 25, Issue 3, pp. 640-672, 2015
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Jun 2015
David Easley, Marcos Lopez de Prado and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Harvard University and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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liquidity, flow toxicity, broker, VWAP, market microstructure, adverse selection, probability of informed trading, VPIN, OEH

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Information and the Cost of Capital

EFA 2002 Berlin Meetings Presented Paper; Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management Working Paper
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 17 Feb 2002
Maureen O'Hara and David Easley
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Cornell University - Department of Economics
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VPIN and the Flash Crash: A Comment

Journal of Financial Markets, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 18 May 2012 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2013
David Easley, Marcos Lopez de Prado and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial Engineering and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Flash crash, liquidity, flow toxicity, market microstructure, probability of informed trading, VPIN

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Is Information Risk a Determinant of Asset Returns?

EFA 0101
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 07 Dec 2000
David Easley, Soeren Hvidkjaer and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Factoring Information into Returns

EFA 2004 Maastricht Meetings Paper No. 4118
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Jun 2004
David Easley, Soeren Hvidkjaer and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Time-Varying Arrival Rates of Informed and Uninformed Trades

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Time-Varying Arrival Rates of Informed and Uninformed Trades

AFA 2002 Atlanta Meetings
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Dec 2001
David Easley, Liuren Wu, Robert F. Engle and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics, City University of New York, CUNY Baruch College - Zicklin School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Time-Varying Arrival Rates of Informed and Uninformed Trades

Journal of Financial Econometrics, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 171-207, 2008
Posted: 10 Jul 2008
David Easley, Robert F. Engle, Maureen O'Hara and Liuren Wu
Cornell University - Department of Economics, New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and City University of New York, CUNY Baruch College - Zicklin School of Business

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C51, C53, G10, G12, G14, Arrival rates, informed trades, uninformed trades, autoregressive process, market depth, liquidity

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From Mining to Markets: The Evolution of Bitcoin Transaction Fees

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2019
David Easley, Maureen O'Hara and Soumya Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Cornell University - Department of Computer Science
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Bitcoin, transaction fees, mining revenue, game theory

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Levelling the Trading Field

Journal of Financial Markets, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 05 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2013
David Easley, Terrence Hendershott and Tarun Ramadorai
Cornell University - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and Imperial College London
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market structure, stock exchange, trading volume, transparency, information, latency, technology upgrade

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Differential Access to Price Information in Financial Markets

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), 2016, 51(4), 1071–1110
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 18 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2017
David Easley, Maureen O'Hara and Liyan Yang
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
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Price Data Selling, Cost of Capital, Liquidity, Volatility, Information Acquisition, Complementarities

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Microstructure in the Machine Age

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 25 Mar 2019
David Easley, Marcos Lopez de Prado, Maureen O'Hara and Zhibai Zhang
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and New York University (NYU) - NYU Tandon School of Engineering
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Market Microstructure, Machine Learning, Features Importance, MDI, MDA, Futures

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Liquidity and Valuation in an Uncertain World

Johnson School Research Paper Series No. 13-08
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 12 Oct 2008
David Easley and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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liquidity, uncertainty, subprime crisis, fair value accounting

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The Active World of Passive Investing

Western Finance Association (WFA) Annual Meeting (2018)
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 27 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2020
David Easley, David Michayluk, Maureen O'Hara and Tālis J. Putniņš
Cornell University - Department of Economics, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) - School of Finance and Economics, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
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exchange-traded fund, ETF, Activeness Index, passive investing, index investing

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Opaque Trading, Disclosure and Asset Prices: Implications for Hedge Fund Regulation

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 1945347
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 17 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2016
David Easley, Maureen O'Hara and Liyan Yang
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
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Opaque trading, asset prices, welfare, regulation

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Firm Characteristics and Informed Trading: Implications for Asset Pricing

Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol. 18, No. 5, 2011
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 29 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2015
Hadiye Aslan, David Easley, Soeren Hvidkjaer and Maureen O'Hara
Georgia State University - Department of Finance, Cornell University - Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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If You're so Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? Belief Selection in Complete and Incomplete Markets

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1319
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 27 Sep 2001
Lawrence E. Blume and David Easley
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Market Selection Hypothesis, Subjective Beliefs, General Equilibrium, Incomplete Markets, Complete Markets

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Microstructure and Ambiguity

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 21 Jan 2010
David Easley and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Loss Aversion, Survival and Asset Prices

Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 160(12): 494-516
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 14 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2016
David Easley and Liyan Yang
Cornell University - Department of Economics and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
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loss aversion; narrow framing; Epstein-Zin preferences; market selection; asset prices

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Towards a Functional Fee Market for Cryptocurrencies

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 30 Jan 2019
Soumya Basu, David Easley, Maureen O'Hara and Emin Sirer
Cornell University - Department of Computer Science, Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Cornell University
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bitcoin, auction, cryptocurrencies, transaction fees

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How Much Trading Volume is Too Much?

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 12 Jan 2017
David Easley and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Market Ethics

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 09 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2019
David Easley and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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ethics, contagion, regulation, market structure

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Heterogeneity, Selection, and Wealth Dynamics

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 2, pp. 425-450, 2010
Posted: 18 Oct 2010
Lawrence E. Blume and David Easley
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Cornell University - Department of Economics

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Ambiguity and Nonparticipation: The Role of Regulation

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 5, pp. 1817-1843, 2009
Posted: 13 Apr 2009
David Easley and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

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G1, G2, D8

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How Stock Splits Affect Trading: A Microstructure Approach

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 36, March 2001
Posted: 25 Apr 2001
David Easley, Maureen O'Hara and Gideon Saar
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

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Stock splits, market microstructure, information asymmetry, optimal tick size, trading range

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Cream-Skimming or Profit-Sharing? The Curious Role of Purchased Order Flow

Memo 1995-5
Posted: 25 Aug 1998
David Easley, Nicholas M. Kiefer and Maureen O'Hara
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

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Option Volume and Stock Prices: Evidence on Where Informed Traders Trade

Journal of Finance, Vol. 53, No. 2, April 1998
Posted: 02 Jul 1998
David Easley, Maureen O'Hara and P. S. Srinivas
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and World Bank

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Liquidity, Information, and Infrequently Traded Stocks

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Liquidity, Information, and Infrequently Traded Stocks

J. OF FINANCE, Vol. 51 No. 4, September 1996
Posted: 06 Nov 1996
David Easley, Nicholas M. Kiefer, Maureen O'Hara and Joseph B. Paperman
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Cornell University

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Liquidity, Information, and Infrequently Traded Stocks

Memo 1995-6
Posted: 27 Jul 1995
David Easley, Nicholas M. Kiefer, Maureen O'Hara and Joseph B. Paperman
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Cornell University

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