Waiting times between orders and trades in double-auction markets

Enrico Scalas, Taisei Kaizoji (), Michael Kirchler, Jürgen Huber and Alessandra Tedeschi

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2006, vol. 366, issue C, 463-471

Abstract: In this paper, the survival function of waiting times between orders and the corresponding trades in a double-auction market is studied both by means of experiments and of empirical data. It turns out that, already at the level of order durations, the survival function cannot be represented by a single exponential, thus ruling out the hypothesis of constant activity during trading. This fact has direct consequences for market microstructural models. They must include such a non-exponential behaviour to be realistic.

Keywords: Duration; Orders; Trades; Intertrade duration; Waiting-times; Survival function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.09.047

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