Spreads, Depths, and Quote Clustering on the NYSE and NASDAQ: Evidence after the 1997 Securities and Exchange Commission Rule Changes
34 Pages Posted: 13 Aug 2002
Date Written: April 2002
Abstract
This paper examines liquidity and quote clustering on the NYSE and Nasdaq using data after the two market reforms - the 1997 order-handling rule and minimum tick size changes. We find that Nasdaq-listed stocks exhibit wider spreads and smaller depths than NYSE-listed stocks and stocks with higher proportions of even-eighth and even-sixteenth quotes have wider quoted, effective, and realized spreads on both the NYSE and Nasdaq. This result differs from the findings by Bessembinder (1999, p. 404) that "trade execution costs on Nasdaq in late 1997 are no longer significantly explained by a tendency for liquidity providers to avoid odd-eighth quotations," and "odd-sixteenth avoidance has little relevance for explaining post-reform Nasdaq trading costs."
Keywords: liquidity, spreads, depths, quote clustering, collusion
JEL Classification: G14, G18
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